Italie. Palais Çà-Doro à Venise. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the Grand Canal towards the palazzo. Aquatint by Jules Arnout. Accompanying descriptive text by Paul de la Garenne.
Canova's Tomb, Church of Santa Maria de' Frari, Venice. Photographer: Naya, Carlo
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Genre: Architectural Photography Side view of the monument to Canova in the Church of St Mary of the Friars (Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari) in Venice. This is not in fact Canova's tomb, but the monument originally designed by him for Titian. His heart is interred beneath the pyramidal monument...
The Bridge of Sighs, Venice. Photographer: Thompson, Stephen
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Blue-tinted woodburytype, a view looking towards the enclosed Bridge of Sighs (Ponte dei Sospiri) over the canal, connecting the prison with the interrogation chamber in the Doge's Palace. With accompanying letterpress by Stephen Thompson.
Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the Porta della Carta, ceremonial entrance to the Doge's Palace, Venice. Photographer unkown, but possibly Carlo Naya.
[Photographic copy of Titian's 'L'Assunta' (Assumption of the Virgin Mary) in the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice.] Photographer: Naya, Carlo