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A Procession in the Catacomb of CallistusRome (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 [...]

Keywords: death, caves, people, roman remains, catacombs, interiors, colour, spooky

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2006-02-09

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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 [...]

Keywords: maps, plans, roman remains, greyscale

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2005-12-29

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V. The Columns of Castor and Pollux, GirgentiIn 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)

Keywords: ruins, temples, hills, trees, sketches, colour

Places shown: GirgentiGirgenti; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2004-01-05

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Portrait of Michael AngeloSouth by East: Notes of Travel in Southern Europe (1877)

“Memorials of Michael Angelo meet one at every turn in Florence. His city is justly proud of him. Mrs. Oliphant speaks of him as “the greatest Florentine master, he who stands alone among the crowd, [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, faces, beards, greyscale

Places shown: Florence; Italy

Added: 2006-03-17

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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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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 [...]

Keywords: 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 CourtModerne 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 [...]

Keywords: galileo, milton, science, telescopes, people, beards, interiors, arches, history of science, greyscale

Places shown: Italy

Added: 2021-06-23

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Building A Roman TemplePopular 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 [...]

Keywords: ancient rome, bare feet, slaves, slavery, animals, construction, greyscale

Places shown: Italy

Added: 2005-03-20

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Campanile and Façade of S S. Giovanni e PauloMediaeval Rome (1901)

p. 103. Campanile and Façade of S S. Giovanni e Paulo
[bell-tower of Staint John and Saint Paul, Rome.]

Keywords: towers, villas, people, churches, greyscale

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2018-03-01

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Porta San PaoloMediaeval Rome (1901)

p. 135. Porta San Paolo
Gate of St. Paul.

Keywords: arches, carts, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2003-04-30

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The Catacombs of NaplesSouth 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 [...]

Keywords: catacombs, death, interiors, tombs, roman remains, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Naples; Italy

Added: 2006-03-17

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Chapel of San Lorenzo at S. Benedict’s, SubiacoRome (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 [...]

Keywords: interiors, frescoes, art, chapels, churches, shrines, religion, colour

Places shown: Subiaco; Rome; Italy

Added: 2011-02-27

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Cloisters of the LateranMediaeval Rome (1901)

p. 153. Cloisters of the Lateran
See the entry in the Catholic Encyclopedia for more information.

Keywords: arches, villas, lions, interiors, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2003-04-16

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Fig 36. — A staircase of the catacombsFabiola, or, the Church of the Catacombs (1887)

The Catacombs of Rome, said to have been used by early Christians to hide from persecution. Looking from within a tall tunnel with an arched roof towards the steps up and presumably out, into the ligh [...]

Keywords: catacombs, staircases, stairway to heaven, caves, corridors, graves, tombs, religion, christianity, roman remains, interiors, spooky, death, graveyards, tombs, greyscale

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2025-04-09

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Porta San PaoloRome (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 [...]

Keywords: castles, colour, towers, people

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2006-06-05

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Porta San Paolo, Wallpaper EditionRome (1905)

A verison of the Porta San Paolo castle gate picture cropped so it fits on a computer desktop as a background image.

Keywords: wallpaper, backgrounds, castles, entrances, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2006-06-05

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p. 161. Arch of Severus, Column of Phocas and S. MartinaMediaeval 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 [...]

Keywords: columns, ruins, pillars, roman remains, temples, colour

Places shown: 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 [...]

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

Places shown: MessinaMessina; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2015-10-14

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The Colosseum in a StormRome (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 amphitheatre [...]

Keywords: roman remains, storms, art, paintings, ruins, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Rome; Italy

Added: 2015-10-03

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The Catacombs at PalermoSouth 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 [...]

Keywords: catacombs, death, interiors, tombs, corridors, people, spooky, greyscale

Places shown: Palermo; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2009-10-24

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