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Musei Vaticani - Bibliotega / Bibliotega / Croce Grega / Sala dei Animali
| Reference: | S42733.9 |
| Author | Michele Mang |
| Year: | 1865 ca. |
| Zone: | Musei Vaticani |
| Measures: | 305 x 210 mm |
€150.00
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| Reference: | S42733.9 |
| Author | Michele Mang |
| Year: | 1865 ca. |
| Zone: | Musei Vaticani |
| Measures: | 305 x 210 mm |
€150.00
Description
This album page features four 19th-century albumen photographs depicting rooms and sculptural masterpieces in the Vatican Museums. Each photograph bears the photographer's signature ("Mang") at the bottom.
Specifically, the rooms visible in the four panels are: top left: The Sistine Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Library, a grandiose frescoed room designed in the late 16th century by Domenico Fontana.
Top right: Another view of the galleries or monumental rooms connected to the Vatican Library itself.
Bottom left: The monumental entrance hall to the museums with its staircase, historically linked to the historic accesses to papal art complexes (such as the areas of the Gregorian Museum).
Bottom right: The famous Hall of Animals inside the Pio-Clementino Museum, known for its rich collection of classical zoological sculptures arranged on marble tables and bases.
Michele Mang (c. 1840 – Rome, February 22, 1909) was a German-born Italian photographer. Mang came from the Kingdom of Bavaria and arrived in Italy in the 1860s. From early 1863, he lived in Rome, where he was a member of the Deutscher Künstlerverein and specialized in portraiture and photographic views of the city. In particular, he was interested in stereoscopy. Piero Becchetti wrote in this regard that around 1865, he "began a broad photographic campaign of the most important monuments of the Eternal City. It was during these years that he carried out a vast, detailed stereoscopic survey of Rome: he reproduced the walls, gates, churches, cloisters, squares, streets, the ruins of the most important monuments, including the surrounding areas, villas and fountains, as well as the masterpieces of the Vatican and Capitoline Museums. These views, later also reproduced in a 'visit' version, are often snapshots and characterized by the presence of figures, as the photographers Altobelli and Molins had already been doing for some time [...]". Initially, he had his studio at Piazza di Spagna 9. In 1871, he took over the photography studio of his friend Oswald Ufer at Via Felice 113 (now Via Sistina 113). On the occasion of the papal jubilee of Pius IX, he painted a portrait of the pope. The known period of his work extends until 1887, when he was succeeded as owner of the studio by the photographer Teodoro Fabbri.
Michele Mang (Monaco di Baviera ? 1840 circa - Roma 1909)
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Michele Mang (German Confederation, c. 1840 – Rome, February 22, 1909) was a German-born Italian photographer. Mang came from the Kingdom of Bavaria and arrived in Italy in the 1860s. From early 1863, he lived in Rome, where he was a member of the Deutscher Künstlerverein and specialized in portraiture and photographic cityscapes. He was particularly interested in stereoscopy. Piero Becchetti writes in this regard that around 1865 he "began a vast photographic campaign of the most important monuments of the Eternal City. It was during these years that he carried out a vast, detailed stereoscopic survey of Rome: he reproduced the walls, gates, churches, cloisters, squares, streets, the ruins of the most important monuments, including those in the surrounding area, the villas and fountains, as well as the masterpieces of the Vatican and Capitoline Museums. These views, later also reproduced in a 'visit' version, are often snapshots and characterized by the presence of figures, as the photographers Altobelli and Molins had already been doing for some time [...]". Initially, he had his studio at Piazza di Spagna 9. In 1871, he took over the photography studio of his friend Oswald Ufer at Via Felice 113 (now Via Sistina 113). On the occasion of the papal jubilee of Pius IX, he painted a portrait of the pope. The known period of his work extends until 1887, when he was succeeded as studio owner by photographer Teodoro Fabbri. He obtained patents for improvements in the production of stereoscopic cameras and, together with Ufer, for a process for printing photographs using a common ink press, acquired from inventors Hom and Grossmann of Berlin. Together with Ufer, Mang perfected the photographic printing process invented in Berlin using a common ink press in Rome.
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Michele Mang (Monaco di Baviera ? 1840 circa - Roma 1909)
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Michele Mang (German Confederation, c. 1840 – Rome, February 22, 1909) was a German-born Italian photographer. Mang came from the Kingdom of Bavaria and arrived in Italy in the 1860s. From early 1863, he lived in Rome, where he was a member of the Deutscher Künstlerverein and specialized in portraiture and photographic cityscapes. He was particularly interested in stereoscopy. Piero Becchetti writes in this regard that around 1865 he "began a vast photographic campaign of the most important monuments of the Eternal City. It was during these years that he carried out a vast, detailed stereoscopic survey of Rome: he reproduced the walls, gates, churches, cloisters, squares, streets, the ruins of the most important monuments, including those in the surrounding area, the villas and fountains, as well as the masterpieces of the Vatican and Capitoline Museums. These views, later also reproduced in a 'visit' version, are often snapshots and characterized by the presence of figures, as the photographers Altobelli and Molins had already been doing for some time [...]". Initially, he had his studio at Piazza di Spagna 9. In 1871, he took over the photography studio of his friend Oswald Ufer at Via Felice 113 (now Via Sistina 113). On the occasion of the papal jubilee of Pius IX, he painted a portrait of the pope. The known period of his work extends until 1887, when he was succeeded as studio owner by photographer Teodoro Fabbri. He obtained patents for improvements in the production of stereoscopic cameras and, together with Ufer, for a process for printing photographs using a common ink press, acquired from inventors Hom and Grossmann of Berlin. Together with Ufer, Mang perfected the photographic printing process invented in Berlin using a common ink press in Rome.
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