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A Procession in the Catacomb of Callistus
Rome (1905)
Navigating the underground paths of the dead in Rome, carrying only a flickering torch to fend off the darkness! The note printed on the tissue-paper protecting this image reads: The nucleus of the gr [...]
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death, caves, people, roman remains, catacombs, interiors, colour, spooky
Places shown:
Rome; Italy
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43.—From Colosseum to Capitol.
Mediaeval Rome (1901)
This is a fold-out map of Rome (or, a plan of part of Rome, I should say) between pages 40 and 41.The text printed under the map is as follows:1. Temple of Romulus.2. Temple of the Sacred City(now SS. [...]
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maps, plans, roman remains, greyscale
Places shown:
Rome; Italy
Added: 2005-12-29
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V. The Columns of Castor and Pollux, Girgenti
In the Land of the Temples (1915)
“This is not a restoration, but a re-building. The re-builders worked better than they knew, and made a delightful—and popular—subject for every artist who goes to Girgenti.” (p. 5)
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ruins, temples, hills, trees, sketches, colour
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Girgenti
Girgenti; Sicily; Italy
Added: 2004-01-05
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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 [...]
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statuary, fountains, courtyards, architecture, buildings, people, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour
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Venice; Veneto; Italy
Added: 2006-04-12
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The Columbarium.
South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)
It is a funeral procession: the mourners walk in line down the steps and into the columbarium where the ashes of the dead will be placed. The chamber is lit by torches carried by mourners and also by [...]
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death, burial, interiors, gloomy, roman remains, spooky, people, music, greyscale
Places shown:
Rome; Italy
Added: 2012-05-29
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Galileo at the Florentine Royal Court
Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band VII (1893)
Galilei am Florentinischen Fürstenhofe, which is, Galileo at the Florentine Royal Court.The engraving, by IJ Sommer, after a painting by Annibale Gatti, is one of several showing Galileo meeting with J [...]
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galileo, milton, science, telescopes, people, beards, interiors, arches, history of science, greyscale
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Italy
Added: 2021-06-23
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Building A Roman Temple
Popular History of Rome, A (1886)
Slave labour! The men working in this illustration are scantily clad: they wear shorts or loin-cloths, and have bare backs and bare feet. An ox-driver leans with his stick against two oxen; he has a [...]
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ancient rome, bare feet, slaves, slavery, animals, construction, greyscale
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Italy
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The Catacombs of Naples
South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)
The Catacombs of Naples are of great interest even after those of Rome; they are said to extend for several miles underground; and they consist of broad arched passages hollowed out of the rock, conta [...]
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catacombs, death, interiors, tombs, roman remains, spooky, greyscale
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Naples; Italy
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Chapel of San Lorenzo at S. Benedict’s, Subiaco
Rome (1905)
This painting by Alberto Pisa shows the inside of the upper church of Sacro Speco, at the Benedictine monastery at Subiaco, near Rome, in Italy. The frescoes (wall-paintings) are from the fourteenth [...]
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interiors, frescoes, art, chapels, churches, shrines, religion, colour
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Subiaco; Rome; Italy
Added: 2011-02-27
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Porta San Paolo
Rome (1905)
“Gate in the Aurelian wall rebuilt by Belisarius. This is the gate of the Ostian Way to the basilica of S. Paul’s—one of the seven great pilgrimage churches—of which the Kings of England were Protect [...]
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castles, colour, towers, people
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Rome; Italy
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p. 161. Arch of Severus, Column of Phocas and S. Martina
Mediaeval Rome (1901)
“The great Pontiff [Pope Gregory the Great] died in 604. Four years later a fine Corinthian pillar, taken froms ome ancient building, was erected in the Forum [in Rome] to commemorate the worst of all [...]
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columns, ruins, pillars, roman remains, temples, colour
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Rome; Italy
Added: 2003-04-16
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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 [...]
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harbours, water, boats, ships, forts, people, hills, greyscale
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Messina
Messina; Sicily; Italy
Added: 2015-10-14
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The Colosseum in a Storm
Rome (1905)
Dark and broody skies over one of the world’s most famous landmarks in this painting by Alberto Pisa.The writer in the extract that follows appears to be unaware that the Greeks also had amphitheatres [...]
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roman remains, storms, art, paintings, ruins, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour
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Rome; Italy
Added: 2015-10-03
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The Catacombs at Palermo
South by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)
At the end of a long dark corridor, lined with coffins, chests, skulls, and the standing dead, we see an archway, and, through the arch, an old man, a monk, standing in a pool of light. This is a very [...]
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catacombs, death, interiors, tombs, corridors, people, spooky, greyscale
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Palermo; Sicily; Italy
Added: 2009-10-24
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Cloisters in Santa Scholastica, Subiaco
Venice (1907)
One of the three cloisters in this Benedictine monastery; it was built by Abbot Lando in 1235, and is decorated on the vault with mosaic work by the Cosmati. See page 36 and interleaf, page 82.Page 8 [...]
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cloisters, interiors, sunlight, people, windows, pillars, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds
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Subiaco; San Lorenzo; Rome; Italy
Added: 2014-08-10
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