Items in or near Italy (results page 1)

Front Cover, El Mundo IlustradoEl Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

This magazine was originally sold in fortnightly issues, with 26 of them (I think) bound into one volume; the copy I have lost its covers before I bought it (which is why I could afford it!) so what y [...]

Keywords: ruins, title pages, book covers, page images, greyscale

Places shown: Borghetto sul Mincio; Valeggio sul Mincio; Verona; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2018-08-22

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Front Cover, FabiolaFabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887)

The front cover of this book is pinted in black with gold foil on red cloth. There’s a picture of a man in a Roman gown and bare feet standing in an arena looking up at the emperor Diocletian (identif [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, peace, christians, lions, sacrifice, coliseum, ancient rome

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2018-01-17

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Frontispiece: The Horses of San Marco, Looking North.Venice (1907)

Bronze (or painted) statues of horses in strong sunlight. The printed colours or this painting do not reproduce well on the screen. There is a caption, “By permission of the Hon. John Collier.”

Keywords: statuary, pillars, animals, horses, colour

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-04-12

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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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Plate 1: Book I, Chapter 2Die Kirchliche Baukunst des Abendlandes (1884)

Figs. 1 – 13: Plans of various Roman buildings, including the Pantheon in Rome and the Baths of Caracalla.

Also a cross-section of the Palace of Augustus in Rome.

Keywords: architecture, diagrams, roman architecture, plans, temples, palaces, towers, backgrounds, wallpaper, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2014-03-01

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Rome: PantheonDie Kirchliche Baukunst des Abendlandes (1884)

This architectural drawing of the Pantheon in Rome features intricate detail, drawings of the statues and columns with their capitals, a cut-away showing the passages inside the walls, and includes sh [...]

Keywords: architecture, diagrams, temples, roman remains, backgrounds, wallpaper, widescreen, domes, pillars, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2014-03-05

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4.—View on the Grand CanalVenice (1907)

The Grand Canal, Venice; the Canal Grande is the largest canal in Venice.

Keywords: water, canals, colour, cities, buildings, colour

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-05-22

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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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127.—BestariiOld England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

A Sculpture FromPompeii

Keywords: people, animals, nudity, bare feet, weapons, battles, greyscale

Places shown: Pompeii; Italy

Added: 2004-04-14

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128.—Amphitheatre at Pompeii.Old England: A Pictorial Museum (1845)

This engraving shows, in poor perspective, a large circular amphitheatre. In the background we see Mount Ætna gently smoking, and in the foreground various people in Victorian costume disporting thems [...]

Keywords: roman remains, antiquities, amphitheatres, architecture, buildings, people, sports, greyscale

Places shown: Pompeii; Campania; Italy

Added: 2020-08-04

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Murder in the CastleLa Civilizacion 3 (1881)

This engraving (i think) actually shows the discovery of the body of the Roman emperor Nero just after he had killed himself, but i am far from certain; the men’s swords are drawn. There are three men [...]

Keywords: death, discovery, accusation, people, men, weapons, soliders, interiors, castles, pillars, throne rooms, greyscale

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2023-02-02

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S. Peter’s and Castel Sant’ Angelo From the TiberRome (1905)

A painting showing St Peter’s Basilica and Saint Angelo’s Castle from the river Tiber, at sunset. There is also a version of this image cropped for use as a computer desktop background, or wallpaper i [...]

Keywords: rome, churches, cathedrals, colour, sunsets, christmas

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2006-02-09

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St. Peter’s Rome from the River Tiber: wallpaper versionRome (1905)

A version of the painting of St. Peter’s Rome from the River Tiber cropped for use as a screen background, desktop, wallpaper image, root window picture, or whatever you want to call it.

Keywords: backgrounds, wallpaper, colour, cathedrals, sunsets

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2006-02-09

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II. The Theatre, SegestaIn the Land of the Temples (1915)

“Nothing, not even Taormina, is more magnificent than the set scene of the Theatre; how poor and mean must have been the forgotten mummers! The scene will exist till the end of time—even though scarc [...]

Keywords: temples, mountains, amphitheatres, sketches, ruins, ancient greek remains, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Segesta; Trapani; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2003-12-14

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Milan CathedralSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

A very fine engraving of the exceptionally beautiful Milan Cathedral; the scaled-down versions don’t do it justice.

Keywords: cathedrals, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Milan; Italy

Added: 2007-08-06

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III. The Temple Over the Canyon, SegestaIn the Land of the Temples (1915)

“Everyone advised me to go to Segesta, and I am glad I wemt, but I should never have known how wonderfully the Greeks made architectural compositions if I had not seen the Grand Canyon. There I saw N [...]

Keywords: temples, ruins, hills, mountains, sketches, ancient greek remains, colour

Places shown: Segesta; Trapani; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2004-01-05

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Cividale: Il Ponte Del DiavoloIllustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band (1858)

The Devil’s Bridge in Cividale del Friuli This bridge over the River Natisone was built in the 1440s, supposedly by the devil, who wanted the soul of the first to cross in exchange for its constructio [...]

Keywords: bridges, arches, water, medieval architecture, perspective, foreshortening, boulders, rocks, rivers, water, greyscale

Places shown: Cividale del Friuli; Udine; Italy

Added: 2021-02-21

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Head of a Roman House Offering SacrificePopular History of Rome, A (1886)

A man, bare-headed and robed, pours from a two-handled jug into a lamp or jug. He is standing by a shrine. “Rome had no sacerdotal caste because the heads of each house were also the priests of the [...]

Keywords: religion, spirit, people, night scenes, death, greyscale

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2007-03-15

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Cathedral of S. Mark, VeniceSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

“The centre of life in Venice is the Piazza of S. Mark, which is not altogether unlike the Palais Royal in Paris. It is surrounded on three sides by lofty houses, the lowest parts of which are shops o [...]

Keywords: cathedrals, buildings, cities, greyscale

Places shown: Venice; Italy

Added: 2006-04-18

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IV. From Temple to Temple, GirgentiIn the Land of the Temples (1915)

‘Not only are the lines of the hills, looking toward the sea, perfect, but the builders of these, as of all the temples, took advantage of the lines in the landscape, making the temple the focus of a [...]

Keywords: ruins, temples, sketches, trees, ancient greek remains, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: GirgentiGirgenti; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2004-01-05

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