Live auction - Lot 589
[Italy]
Photo album of Italy.
Late 19th c
€ 250 / 300
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Lot description
28 albumen prints, 20,1 x 25,2 cm, captions on the photographs, one with blindstamp "Alinari".
Kept in an oblong folio album, half black shagreen with corners, spine with 5 raised bands (sl. rubbed, corners bumped).
Nice album with photos of Italian cities and the art treasures kept in the country: Vatican painting, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, view of Turin, the Fountain of Neptune in Florence, the Roman Catholic Basilica Santa Maria dei Servi in Bologna, Piazza del Duomo in Milan, the Sagrestia Nuova designed by Michelangelo, a view on Genoa, Florence Cathedral, Santa Maria Novella in Florence, the triumphal arch Arco della Pace in Milan, Piazza della Signoria in Florence, the Cappella dei Principi, one of the Medici Chapels at the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence, Florence Baptistery, view of the Arno in Pisa, Pisa Cathedral, Milan Cathedral, the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, the Ponte Vecchio over the Arno in Florence, the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pisa Baptistery, the Statue of Dante Alighieri in Florence. Loosely inserted a portrait of a pope with on verso stamp "Francesco de-Fredericis, Fotografo Pontificio, Roma".