Items in Veneto (results page 1)

Front Cover, El Mundo Ilustrado El 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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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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4.—View on the Grand Canal Venice (1907)

The Grand Canal, Venice; theCanal Grandeis 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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63.—Bronze Well-Head by Alberghetti—Courtyard of the Palazzo Ducale. Venice (1907)

“Marco tells of magnificent feasts made by the Great Kaan on his birthday and on New Year’s Day. He delights in stories of the chase within the domain of Cublay’s palace of Chandu (perhaps the Xanadu [...]

Keywords: statuary, fountains, courtyards, architecture, buildings, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2006-04-12

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Basilica St. Anthony, Padua El Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

The early fourteenth-century cathedral of Saint Anthony in Padua, drawn I think form the South-East.

Keywords: cathedrals, gothic architecture, medieval architecture, churches, buildinfs, exteriors, rivers, trees, towers, domes, minarets, greyscale

Places shown: Padua; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2021-06-06

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Quinta Giustiniani en Pádua El Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

The caption,Quinta Giustiniani en Pádua, meansGiustiniani farmhouse in Padua; the Giustiniani family were originally in Venice; Padua is some forty kilometres (25 miles) from Venice.The picture appear [...]

Keywords: baroque architecture, gothic, spooky, people, arches, overgrown, grand, ornate, vines, trees, buildings, greyscale

Places shown: Padua; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2018-09-20

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Fraile mendicante, en Venecia. El Mundo Ilustrado (1883)

A mendicant friar begging on the streets of Venice. The illustration accompanies an article about Venice. In it, we see a long narrow street, less than six feet wide, paved with flagstones. The buildi [...]

Keywords: street scenes, people, transactions, commerce, buying, paying, men, women, alleyways, priests, religion, christianity, mendicant priests, costumes, cities, greyscale

Places shown: Venice; Veneto; Italy

Added: 2018-09-18

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