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[Pitti Palace and courtyard - Florence, Italy] – Vintage Print

[Pitti Palace and courtyard - Florence, Italy], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[Pitti Palace and courtyard - Florence, Italy], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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A window into the past: [Pitti Palace and courtyard - Florence, Italy], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The Pitti Palace, the great Renaissance residence on the Oltrarno side of the Arno in Florence, is the subject here, shown through its courtyard rather than its famous façade. The Pitti was begun around 1458 for the banker Luca Pitti, and the Medici family later acquired it and expanded it into their principal seat, so its courtyards reflect centuries of grand-ducal building. Alinari, the Florentine firm that issued this sepia photoprint, was among the most prolific publishers of views of Italian cities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and their images were widely sold to travelers and collectors. The caption card carries no date, so the exact year of the photograph is unknown.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesSepia photoprint published by Alinari. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Palaces; Courtyards.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,218 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149579

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