Items in Messina (results page 1)

Frontispiece: Cathedral o MessinaSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

This engraving was published in 1877; since then, the cathedral was damaged in an earthquake in 1919 and mostly rebuilt, only to be bombed in the Second World War and again partly rebuilt. In spite of [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, buildings, churches, architecture, gothic architecture, greyscale

Places shown: Messina; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2012-05-29

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I. Aetna over TaorminaIn the Land of the Temples (1915)

“For years I wanted to make this drawing—and for days after I reached Taormina I had to wait before I could make it: for a curtain of mist hung over the sea and land. Then suddenly in all its glory t [...]

Keywords: temples, mountains, sketches, ruins, colour

Places shown: Taormina; Messina; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2003-12-14

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Entrance to the harbour of Messina.South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

The harbour of Messina, today a large and modern city, was in the 1870s protected by a fort (still present). Today there is a large stone column with a statue on top of it very prominently placed on t [...]

Keywords: harbours, water, boats, ships, forts, people, hills, greyscale

Places shown: MessinaMessina; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2015-10-14

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