Interior of Coliseum, Rome, Italy, 1909 – Antique Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Interior of Coliseum, Rome, Italy, 1909 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Interior of Coliseum, Rome
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Interior of Coliseum, Rome, Italy, 1909
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Rome in 1909 was the capital of a kingdom only about four decades old, unified under the House of Savoy in 1870, and it was in the middle of a building boom as the city expanded well beyond its old walls. Tourism was a major part of its economy, with visitors arriving by rail from across Europe and America to see the ancient monuments that defined the city's reputation. The Colosseum, the vast amphitheater built under the Flavian emperors nearly two thousand years earlier, had been partly excavated and stabilized by the Italian state in the decades before, and it stood as the city's most famous ruin. This panoramic view of its interior shows the arena and tiered seating as a traveler of the period would have encountered them, a place of imperial spectacle that by then drew crowds of sightseers rather than gladiatorial audiences.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moffett studio |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Italy |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,822 px · prints to 18 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Interior of Coliseum, Rome |
| Reference | ITALY Interior of Coliseum, Rome 1909 |
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