Castle St. Angelo, Hall of Justice, St. Peters, 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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This historic image of Castle St. Angelo, Hall of Justice, St. Peters, Rome, Italy, 1909 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Castle St. Angelo, Hall of Justice & St. Peters, Rome, Italy
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Castle St. Angelo, Hall of Justice, St. Peters, Rome, Italy, 1909
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Rome in 1909 was the capital of a unified Italy that was only about four decades old, and its government was still reshaping the old papal city into a modern one. The view centers on Castel Sant'Angelo, the second-century Hadrian's mausoleum that later became a papal fortress, and the new Palace of Justice rising on the Prati district across the Tiber. Both buildings were symbols of the change: the castle recalled centuries of papal rule, while the courts building, still under construction, housed the state's legal institutions. The surrounding quarter was filling with apartment blocks and government offices, and the new Tiber embankments were taming a river that had flooded the city for centuries. Residents would have known this stretch of the river as the approach to St. Peter's, where the Vatican's presence and the national government's ambitions sat side by side.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moffett studio |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Italy |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,053 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Castle St. Angelo, Hall of Justice & St. Peters, Rome, Italy |
| Reference | ITALY Castle St. Angelo, Hall of Justice, St. Peters, Rome, 1909 |
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