Piazza of San Marco, Venice, Italy – Vintage Wall Art
![Piazza of San Marco, Venice, Italy, [between 1890 and 1900] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c6/c643960af9ab-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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A window into the past: Piazza of San Marco, Venice, Italy, preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Piazza of San Marco, Venice, Italy
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Taken across the Piazza San Marco, this view centers on the Basilica and its domes, with the square's arcades and the bell tower rising behind. The print is a photochrom, a color process developed in Switzerland in the 1880s that printed several lithographic stones, each inked in a different color, from a photographic negative. The campanile visible here stood until it collapsed in 1902, so the picture shows the square as it looked shortly before that loss. Photochroms like this one were widely sold as travel souvenirs.
| Created / published | [between 1890 and 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. |
| Genre | Photochrom prints Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | No. 6968. |
| Subjects | Plazas--Italy--Venice--1890-1900. Churches--Italy--Venice--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,160 × 1,474 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217566 |
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