Italy, Cathedral, Florence – Historic Photo Reproduction
![Italy, Cathedral, Florence, [between 1916 and 1917] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5c/5ca7efe99e5f-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Italy, Cathedral, Florence. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Italy, Cathedral, Florence
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The dome of Santa Maria del Fiore, the cathedral of Florence, rises above the city's rooftops in this view, its ribbed red-tiled curve finished by Filippo Brunelleschi in 1436. The cathedral's marble facade, banded in green, pink, and white, is much newer, completed in the 1880s in a neo-Gothic style. The National Photo Company, an American firm that produced travel views of Europe for tourists and schools, made this glass negative around 1916 to 1917, while Italy was fighting in the First World War. Its record is still thin, but the image shows how the city's landmarks were kept in circulation even during the war.
| Created / published | [between 1916 and 1917] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch seven. |
| Subjects | Italy--Florence. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,128 × 6,432 px · prints to 17 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-262341 |
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