Pope Benedict XV (Cardinal Delia Chiesa) – Vintage 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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Pope Benedict XV (Cardinal Delia Chiesa) comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Pope Benedict XV (Cardinal Delia Chiesa)
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Here the subject is a churchman rather than a scene: a glass negative from the Bain News Service showing Giacomo della Chiesa, who was Pope Benedict XV from 1914 to 1922, though the record identifies him by his earlier title as Cardinal della Chiesa. Bain's studio, run by George Grantham Bain in New York, supplied newspapers with photographs of news figures in the early twentieth century, and its negatives often arrived with handwritten caption cards that were not always checked. The catalog notes that this title is unverified, so the identification should be read with that in mind. Benedict XV led the Catholic Church through the First World War, when he called repeatedly for a negotiated peace, which makes portraits of him from this period worth a closer look.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch four loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,178 × 5,754 px · prints to 14 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-18326 |
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