Massimo Listri travels his native Italy and the world with his camera, photographing grand interior spaces both iconic and unexpected.
Listri's landscape photography and large-scale color prints invite viewers into the settings he frames; these include ancient castles, villas, palaces, gardens, libraries, convents, monasteries, and universities. He has taken viewers into the ornate hallways of Versailles, as well as the treasure-laden galleries of the Vatican museums. From Brazil, Listri brought back images taken at art museums, a cathedral, and a theater designed by Oscar Niemeyer, among many other architecturally iconic sites.
Though Listri focuses on the grand, he has also homed in on details in an expressive series of closely framed photographs of sculpted faces. Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.
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Massimo Listri - Biblioteca di Admont, Austria (Library)
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York City, NY
48 x 60 inches Edition of 5 Chromogenic Print Framed Massimo Listri travels his native Italy and the world with his camera, photographing grand interior spaces both iconic and unexp...
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Reggia di Caserta IV, Italy
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York City, NY
MASSIMO LISTRI Reggia di Caserta IV, Italy, 1994 40 x 48 inches 100 x 120 cm Edition of 5 48 x 60 inches 120 x 150 cm Edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches 180 x 225 cm Edition of 5 Fram...
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Sammezanno VII, Tuscany, Italy by Massimo Listri
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York City, NY
MASSIMO LISTRI Sammezanno VII, Tuscany, 2005 Unframed Unframed Available sizes: 40 x 48 inches 100 x 120 cm Edition of 5 48 x 60 inches 120 x 150 cm Edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inc...
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$14,500
Massimo Listri - Gipsoteca di Canova a Possagno, Italy (Portrait of Interiors)
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York City, NY
MASSIMO LISTRI Gipsoteca di Canova a Possagno, Italy (Portrait of Interiors), 2019 48 x 60 inches 120 x 150 cm Edition of 5 Chromogenic Print Signed, dated, and numbered on verso ...
Photographic Paper, C Print
$14,500
Massimo Listri - Hermitage Museum VII, St. Petersburg (Portrait of Interiors)
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York City, NY
MASSIMO LISTRI Massimo Listri - Hermitage Museum VII, St. Petersburg (Portrait of Interiors), 2018 48 x 60 inches 120 x 150 cm Edition of 5 Chromoge...
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Palácio do Itamaraty, Oscar Niemeyer, Brasilia, Brazil by Massimo Listri
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York City, NY
Massimo Listri Palácio do Itamaraty, Oscar Niemeyer, Brasilia, Brazil, 2012 Unframed Unframed Available sizes: 40 x 48 inches 100 x 120 cm Edition of 5 48 x 60 inches 120 x 150...
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$27,000
Scalone Lorenese, Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze, Italy by Massimo Listri
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York City, NY
Massimo Listri Scalone Lorenese, Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze, Italy, 2009 Unframed Available sizes: 40 x 48 inches 100 x 120 cm Edition of 5 48 x 60 inches 120 x 150 cm Editi...
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The Metropolitan Museum, New York by Massimo Listri
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York City, NY
Massimo Listri Portrait of Interiors Metropolitan, New York, USA 2013 Unframed Available sizes: 40 x 48 inches 100 x 120 cm Edition of 5 48 x 60 inches 120 x 150 cm Edition of 5...
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Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey by Massimo Listri
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York City, NY
Available sizes: 40 x 48 inches 100 x 120 cm Edition of 5 48 x 60 inches 120 x 150 cm Edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches 180 x 225 cm Edition of 5 Framing options available. Massim...
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Massimo Listri 'Archivio delle Indie II, Siviglia'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Archivio delle Indie II, Siviglia 1990 C-print Signed, titled, dated and numbered edition of 5 on artist's label on verso. 39.5 x 47.5 inches 47.5 x 59 inches 71 x 88.5 inches Fra...
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Massimo Listri 'Museo del RisorgimentoII, Forlì'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Museo del RisorgimentoII, Forlì' 2014 C-print Signed, titled, dated and numbered edition of 5 on artist's label on verso. The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated ho...
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Massimo Listri 'Museo Delle Carrozze, Lisbona'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri Museo Delle Carrozze, Lisbona 1990 C print Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label 39.5 x 47.5 inches edition of 5 47.5 x 59 inches edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inc...
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Massimo Listri 'Biblioteca St. Emmeram III, Regensburg, Germania'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Biblioteca St. Emmeram III, Regensburg, Germania 2016 C print signed and numbered edition of 5 The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated how his architectural subject...
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Massimo Listri, Galleria degli Uffizi, Sala di Niobe II, Firenze
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri Uffizi XI, Firenze, 2009 C print Signed and numbered edition of 5 39.5 x 47 inches Edition of 5 47.5 × 59 inches Edition of 5 71 x 88.75 inches Edition of 5 Flor...
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Massimo Listri 'Collegio delle Fanciulle VI - Milano'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Collegio delle Fanciulle VI - Milano 2015 C-print Signed, numberd and dated on verso label 39.5 x 47.5 inches edition of 5 47.5 x 59 inches edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches editio...
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Massimo Listri 'Grotta Verde II, Dresda'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Grotta Verde II, Dresda 2018 C print 100 x 120 cm / 39.5 x 47.5 inches - edition of 5 120 x 150 cm / 47.5 x 59 inches - edition of 5 180 x 225 cm / 71 x 88.5 inches - edition of 5 Massimo Listri is a Florence-based photographer whose work often presents interiors of great architectural and cultural importance, some open to the public, others not easily accessible. Listri has been described as an extraordinary 'sceneographer', a term more commonly associated with movies and theater. He has photographed ancient castles, villas and palaces, as well as hidden gardens...
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Massimo Listri 'Castello di Rivoli'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Castello di Rivoli 2007 Chromogenic print 180 x 225 cm Edition of 5 Italian, b. 1954, Florence, Italy, based in Florence, Italy Massimo Listri travels his native Italy and the worl...
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Massimo Listri, Palazzo Reale, Belgrado
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri Uffizi XI, Firenze, 2009 C print Signed and numbered edition of 5 39.5 x 47 inches Edition of 5 47.5 × 59 inches Edition of 5 71 x 88.75 inches Edition of 5 Flor...
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Massimo Listri 'Venaria Reale XIII Torino'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Venaria Reale XIII Torino, 2018 C-print Signed, titled, dated and numbered edition of 5 on artist's label on verso. The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated how h...
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Massimo Listri, Mosteiro Dos Jeronimos Lisbona
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Mosteiro Dos Jeronimos Lisbona 2017 Chromogenic print Edition of 5 Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label Mounted on aluminum Framing options available 39.5 x 47.5 inches ed...
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Massimo Listri 'Grotta Verde I, Dresda'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Grotta Verde I, Dresda 2018 C print 39.5 x 47.5 inches - edition of 5 47.5 x 59 inches - edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches - edition of 5 Massimo Listri is a Florence-based photographer whose work often presents interiors of great architectural and cultural importance, some open to the public, others not easily accessible. Listri has been described as an extraordinary 'sceneographer', a term more commonly associated with movies and theater. He has photographed ancient castles, villas and palaces, as well as hidden gardens...
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Massimo Listri 'Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana-Città Vaticano'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana-Città Vaticano, 2015 Chromogenic print Edition of 5 C print Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label 39.5 x 47.5 inches edition o...
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Massimo Listri 'Fortuny, Venezia'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri Fortuny, Venezia 2022 C print Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label 39.5 x 47.5 inches (100 x 120 cm) edition of 5 - $12,500 47.5 x 59 inches (120 x 150 cm) e...
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Massimo Listri 'Castello Tramontano, Matera'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Castello Tramontano, Matera 2018 C print 39.5 x 47.5 inches - edition of 5 47.5 x 59 inches - edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches - edition of 5 Massimo Listri is a Florence-based photographer whose work often presents interiors of great architectural and cultural importance, some open to the public, others not easily accessible. Listri has been described as an extraordinary 'sceneographer', a term more commonly associated with movies and theater. He has photographed ancient castles, villas and palaces, as well as hidden gardens...
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Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Ducale III, Venezia'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri Palazzo Ducale III, Venezia 2022 C print Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label 39.5 x 47.5 inches (100 x 120 cm) edition of 5 - $12,500 47.5 x 59 inches (120 ...
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Massimo Listri 'Chiesa del Purgatorio, Matera'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Chiesa del Purgatorio, Matera 2018 C print 39.5 x 47.5 inches - edition of 5 47.5 x 59 inches - edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches - edition of 5 Massimo Listri is a Florence-based photographer whose work often presents interiors of great architectural and cultural importance, some open to the public, others not easily accessible. Listri has been described as an extraordinary 'sceneographer', a term more commonly associated with movies and theater. He has photographed ancient castles, villas and palaces, as well as hidden gardens...
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Massimo Listri 'Castello di Rivoli III - Torino'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Castello di Rivoli III - Torino "What makes his work unique is how he has made interiors look so absolutely vivid, as if they had a secret life of their own that only he knows how t...
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Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Schloss Hof Vienna'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Palazzo Ducale a Mantova, 1996 C print 100 x 120 cm, edition of 5 120 x 150 cm, edition of 5 180 x 225 cm, edition of 5 Signed and dated on the verso label Massimo Listri Italian, b...
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Massimo Listri 'Biblioteca di Strahov, Praga'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Biblioteca di Strahov, Praga, 2009 C print 39.5 x 47.5 inches - edition of 5 - $12,500 47.5 x 59 inches - edition of 5 - $14,500 71 x 88.5 inches - edition of 5 - $25,000 Massim...
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Massimo Listri 'Hermitage San Pietroburgo'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Palazzo Ducale Mantova 2017 C print 39.5 x 47.5 inches - edition of 5 47.5 x 59 inches - edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches - edition of 5 Massimo Listri is a Florence-based photographer...
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Massimo Listri 'Villa Porfidia, Napoli'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri Villa Porfidia, Napoli 2020 C print Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label Framed and mounted 39.5 x 47.5 inches edition of 5 47.5 x 59 inches edition of 5 7...
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Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Reale IV, Venezia'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri Palazzo Reale IV, Venezia 2022 C print Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label 39.5 x 47.5 inches (100 x 120 cm) edition of 5 - $12,500 47.5 x 59 inches (120 x ...
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Massimo Listri 'Museo Storia Naturale, Venezia'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri Museo Storia Naturale, Venezia 2022 C print Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label 39.5 x 47.5 inches (100 x 120 cm) edition of 5 - $12,500 47.5 x 59 inches (1...
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Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Ducale III, Venezia'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri Palazzo Ducale III, Venezia 2022 C print Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label 39.5 x 47.5 inches (100 x 120 cm) edition of 5 - $12,500 47.5 x 59 inches (120 ...
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Massimo Listri 'Venaria Reale XIII Torino'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Venaria Reale XIII Torino, 2018 C-print Signed, titled, dated and numbered edition of 5 on artist's label on verso. The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated how h...
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Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Borromeo I, Isola Bella'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Palazzo Borromeo I, Isola Bella 2018 C print 39.5 x 47.5 inches - edition of 5 47.5 x 59 inches - edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches - edition of 5 Massimo Listri is a Florence-based pho...
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Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Ca' d'Oro II, Venezia'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri Palazzo Ca' d'Oro II, Venezia 2022 2022 C print Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label 39.5 x 47.5 inches (100 x 120 cm) edition of 5 - $12,500 47.5 x 59 inche...
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Museo Correr Venezia
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Museo Correr Venezia, 2016 C print 100 x 120 cm, edition of 5 120 x 150 cm, edition of 5 180 x 225 cm, edition of 5 The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated how his ...
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Massimo Listri, 'Museo degli Argenti, Palazzo Pitti Firenze'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Museo degli Argenti, Palazzo Pitti Firenze 2008 C-print Edition of 5 Signed, titled and numbered on verso “His photographs are theorems of human absence ...” (Vittorio Sgarbi) Born in Florence in 1953, even as a child Massimo Listri busied himself with the photographic medium, and when he was an art student he supplied many photographs to periodicals devoted to art, architecture and interior design. "What makes his work unique is how he has made interiors look so absolutely vivid, as if they had a secret life of their own that only he knows how to portray. Listri has the extraordinary ability to capture all the small details that make the difference and reveal all the stories that remain hidden behind the surface. Listri's photos transmit an almost deafening silence, as if time had stopped and humans had suddenly disappeared and the only thing reminiscent of them are the interiors they've left behind, the remains of their lives and their passions, their art and their culture." Apostolos Mitsios His work has been presented in many solo exhibitions throughout the world, including: the Palazzo Reale, Milan (2008), the Palazzo Pitti, Florence (2009), the Morgan Library and Museum, New York (2010), the National Library of Taipei (2012), the Italian Institute of Culture, Tokyo (2012), the Museum of Modern Art of Bogota (2012), the Museum of Italian Art, Lima (2012), the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art (2012), the “living art gallery”, Santiago de Chile (2013), the Galeria Nacional de Bellas Artes, Dominican Re- public (2013), the Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow (2013), the Museo Nacional San Carlos, Mexico City (2014), the Benaki Museum...
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Giardino e Grotta di Lainate Per Opera
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Giardino e Grotta di Lainate Per Opera, 2012 C print Edition of 5 Massimo Listri is a Florence-based photographer whose work often presents interiors of great architectural and cultural importance, some open to the public, others not easily accessible. Listri has been described as an extraordinary 'sceneographer', a term more commonly associated with movies and theater. He has photographed ancient castles, villas and palaces, as well as hidden gardens...
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Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Ca' d'Oro I, Venezia'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri Palazzo Ca' d'Oro I, Venezia 2022 C print Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label 39.5 x 47.5 inches (100 x 120 cm) edition of 5 - $12,500 47.5 x 59 inches (120...
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Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Ducale III, Venezia'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri Palazzo Ducale III, Venezia 2022 C print Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label 39.5 x 47.5 inches (100 x 120 cm) edition of 5 - $12,500 47.5 x 59 inches (120 ...
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Massimo Listri 'Biblioteca Coimbra'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri Biblioteca Coimbra 1992 c print edition of 5 Massimo Listri is a Florence-based photographer whose work often presents interiors of great architectural and cultural i...
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Biblioteca St. Emmeram III, Regensburg, Germania
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Biblioteca St. Emmeram III, Regensburg, Germania 2016 C print signed and numbered edition of 5 The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated how his architectural subject...
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Archivio Banco di Napoli II
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Palazzo di Ostankino, Mosca, 2015 Chromogenic print Edition of 5 Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label Mounted on aluminum framing options available 39.5 x 47.5 inches edit...
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Massimo Listri 'Castello di Rivoli'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Castello di Rivoli 2007 Chromogenic print 180 x 225 cm Edition of 5 Italian, b. 1954, Florence, Italy, based in Florence, Italy Massimo Listri travels his native Italy and the worl...
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Massimo Listri 'Grotta Verde II, Dresda'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Grotta Verde II, Dresda 2018 C print 39.5 x 47.5 inches - edition of 5 47.5 x 59 inches - edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches - edition of 5 Massimo Listri is a Florence-based photographe...
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Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Ducale I, Venezia'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri Palazzo Ducale I, Venezia 2022 2022 C print Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label 39.5 x 47.5 inches (100 x 120 cm) edition of 5 - $12,500 47.5 x 59 inches (1...
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Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Madama II, Torino'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Palazzo Madama II, Torino, 2007 Chromogenic print 39.5 x 47.5 inches edition of 5 47.5 x 59 inches edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches edition of 5 The photographer is based in F...
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Massimo Listri 'Grotta Verde II, Dresda'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Grotta Verde II, Dresda 2018 C print 39.5 x 47.5 inches - edition of 5 47.5 x 59 inches - edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches - edition of 5 Massimo Listri is a Florence-based photographe...
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Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Madama II, Torino'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Palazzo Madama II, Torino, 2007 Chromogenic print 39.5 x 47.5 inches edition of 5 47.5 x 59 inches edition of 5 71 x 88.5 inches edition of 5 The photographer is based in F...
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Petrovsky Palace, Moscow
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri Petrovsky Palace, Moscow, 2015 C-print Signed, titled, dated and numbered edition of 5 on artist's label on verso. The photographer is based in Florence, and is fa...
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Massimo Listri 'Museo Storia Naturale, Venezia'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri Museo Storia Naturale, Venezia 2022 C print Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label 39.5 x 47.5 inches (100 x 120 cm) edition of 5 - $12,500 47.5 x 59 inches (1...
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Massimo Listri, Mosteiro Dos Jeronimos Lisbona
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Mosteiro Dos Jeronimos Lisbona 2017 Chromogenic print Edition of 5 Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label Mounted on aluminum Framing options available 39.5 x 47.5 inches ed...
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Massimo Listri 'Venaria Reale XIII Torino'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Venaria Reale XIII Torino, 2018 C-print Signed, titled, dated and numbered edition of 5 on artist's label on verso. The photographer is based in Florence, and is fascinated how h...
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Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Ducale I, Venezia'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri Palazzo Ducale I, Venezia 2022 2022 C print Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label 39.5 x 47.5 inches (100 x 120 cm) edition of 5 - $12,500 47.5 x 59 inches (1...
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Santa Maria della Valle, Matera
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Santa Maria della Valle, Matera (Under construction) C print 120 x 150 cm Signed numbered edition of 5 Florentine photographer Massimo Listri is fascinated how his architectural su...
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Massimo Listri Palazzo Wittum, Weimar
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri Palazzo Wittum, Weimar 1997 C print Signed and numbered edition of 5 39.5 x 47 inches (100x120 cm) Edition of 5 47.5 × 59 inches (120x150 cm) Edition of 5 71 x 88...
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Massimo Listri, Castello Racconigi
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
CASTELLO RACCONIGI 2007 Chromogenic print Edition of 5 Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label Mounted on aluminum Framing options available 39.5 x 47.5 inches edition of 5 ...
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Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Pitti, Sala Bianca, Firenze'
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Palazzo Pitti, Sala Bianca, Firenze, 2008 Chromogenic print 120 x 150 cm Edition of 5 Italian, b. 1954, Florence, Italy, based in Florence, Italy Massimo Listri travels his native ...
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