Architectural Lantern Slides of Italy
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Lantern slides created in Italy during the late 19th or early 20th century. Image subjects include arenas, basilicas, cathedrals, chapels, churches, fountains, gardens, loggias, public buildings, ruins, sculpture, tombs. These lantern slides were intended for use in architectural pedagogy. Some images include people and fashions of the time.
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Milan Cathedral: View of nave, looking toward altar and apse

Milan Cathedral: View of roof showing tall capitals and flying buttresses

Milan Cathedral: View of side facade, east transept, showing spire topped by gilded statue of the Madonna

Milan Cathedral: View of spire, octagonal cupola and transept and chapel roofs

Milvian Bridge: View from base of bastion tower showing the six spans

Monastery of San Michele in Bosco: View of church, loggia next to main facade, with campanile behind

Monreale Cathedral: Apse mosaic detail, Christ Pantokrator with Saints and the Virgin

Monreale Cathedral: Exterior view of side of the cathedral with the loggia of the cloister

Monreale Cathedral: Interior nave, view of apse mosaic and altar

Monreale Cathedral: Interior view of nave looking towards apse mosiac

Monreale Cathedral: Interior view, Chapel of St. Benedict

Monreale Cathedral: Interior, inlaid sarcophagus in the side aisle

Monreale Cathedral: West facade, with later additions

Monument to Clement X: Overall view

Monument to Matilda of Canossa: Overall view

Monza Cathedral: Raking view of facade and campanile

Mostra dell'Acqua Felice: Overall view of front of fountain

Naples Cathedral: Chapel of the Treasure of St. Januarius, entry wall

Naples Cathedral: Detail of bishop's throne

National Roman Museum of the Diocletian Baths: View into the garden of the cloister

Neptune Fountain, Messina: Detail of midsection

Neptune Fountain, Messina: Detail of midsection

New Cathedral, Brescia, Italy

Nymphaeum, "Temple of Minerva Medica": Overall view

Obelisk and Fountain, Piazza della Rotunda: Overall view, obelisk with fountain base

Old Cathedral, Brescia: Interior, looking into presbytery and entrance to crypt of San Filastrio

Old Cathedral, Brescia: Overall view, with main portal to the right

Oratory of Saint George, Padua: Overall view from Piazza del Santo

Oratory of San Bernardino: Detail of tympanum over main portal, St. Bernardino in Glory

Oratory of San Bernardino: Overall view of the facade