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Giorgio SommerArena in Veronac. 1880
c. 1880
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Giorgio Sommer (1834 Frankfurt on the Main - 1914 Naples): Italy, The Arena in Verona View from an elevated vantage point of the amphitheatre and the city, c. 1880, albumen paper print
Technique: albumen paper print, mounted on Cardboard
Inscription: At the lower part inscribed on the support: "Italien: Die Arena in Verona".
Date: c. 1880
Description: The Arena in Verona is a well-preserved Roman amphitheatre and is considered the third largest of the surviving ancient amphitheatres. Particularly attractive: the photograph captures the vegetation in the foreground of the complex, which had just been planted at the time. Original photograph with high sharpness of detail. An early testimony of travel photography. Around the middle of the 19th century, more and more tourists from middle-class circles travelled to Italy. At that time, photographs could only be taken with a great deal of time and expensive, unwieldy equipment. This made many tourists all the more grateful for the work of the professional photographer's studios on site to bring back a souvenir from afar for those who stayed at home or to collect as souvenirs. Famous photographers such as Carlo Naya, Giorgio Sommer or the Alinari brothers photographed the most famous sights of their home towns and went on journeys themselves to photograph the most popular destinations of their clients and offer them as albumen prints. Ancient art treasures were also photographed and offered to travellers. The high-quality photographs of sculptures and frescoes continued to make an important contribution to documenting art treasures and making them accessible to scholars from all over Europe, who previously had to rely on tracings or engravings if they could not view the original for themselves.
Keywords: Italy view, travel photography, documentary photography, architectural photography, Roman amphitheatre, Arena di Verona, 19th century, Historicism, Architecture, Italy,
- Creator:Giorgio Sommer (1834 - 1914, Italian)
- Creation Year:c. 1880
- Dimensions:Height: 12.13 in (30.8 cm)Width: 14.57 in (37 cm)
- Period:
- Condition:Good condition. The image makes a very good impression. At upper right in the area of the sky slightly foxed due to age; the cardboard is slightly wavy.
- Gallery Location:Frankfurt am Main, DE
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