Norman Neuerburg photograph collection [graphic] : views of classical antiquities and scenes in Italy, Greece, and other Mediterranean locations. ca. 1870-ca. 1895.

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Norman Neuerburg photograph collection [graphic] : views of classical antiquities and scenes in Italy, Greece, and other Mediterranean locations. ca. 1870-ca. 1895.

Professional views chiefly of sites, artifacts, and art from antiquity, and also scenic views of towns and countryside. These photographs appear to have been issued in souvenir albums or collected and compiled into portfolios. Contents, by volume: v. 1: Italian subjects, chiefly by G. Sommer -- v.2: Italian subjects, by Paolo Lombardi, Sommer, and Alinari -- v.3 sites in Greece (Athens and Mycenae) and unidentified Mediterranean locales -- v.4: sites in Turkey (including a panorama of Costantinople) and perhaps other locations, as well as sculpture and portraits of cultural "types" v.5: Pompei [sic], photographed by Sommer -- v.6: Pompei -- v.7: Pompei -- v. 8: Pompei -- v. 9: Napoli, photographed by Sommer.

4 portfolios and 5 albums (ca. 270 photographic prints) : albumen ; various sizes.

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Fratelli Alinari.

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Italian photographic firm specializing in works of art. From the description of I Bassorilievi del Duomo di Orvieto. [between 1860 and 1899?] (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84944929 Founded in 1852, Fratelli Alinari (Florence, Italy) began as a commercial photographic studio specializing in travel views of Italy. The company eventually expanded to include an archive and a museum. From the description of Fratelli Alinari Collection. [ca. 1850-1880...

Lombardi, Paolo 1827-1890

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Neuerburg, Norman

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American art historian, historical consultant to the J. Paul Getty Museum. From the description of Papers regarding Getty Villa design and construction, 1966-1987, bulk 1970-1975. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 145999273 Biographical/Historical Note Norman Neuerburg, an art and architecture historian, artist, and university professor, was born in 1926 in Universal City, California. After serving in the ar...

Sebah & Joaillier.

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Sommer, Giorgio, 1834-1914

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German-born photographer Giorgio Sommer opened his photographic studio in Naples in 1857, and published Naples and Surroundings that same year. While his views and genre scenes catered to the tourist trade, Sommer was also keenly interested in documenting archaeological subjects. He photographed Pompeii in 1863, and won a bronze medal for his photographs at the 1867 Exposition universelle, Paris. From the description of [Two views of Pompeii]. [ca. 1863] (Getty Research Institute). W...