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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Pulpit, Baptistery of Pisa: Overall view of Baptistry pulpit

Pulpit, Cathedral of Pisa: Overall view

Rialto Bridge: Overall view seen from the canal with gondolas and a dock in the foreground

Roman Amphitheater, Verona: Distant view of Arena exterior in the Piazza Bra

Roman Amphitheater, Verona: View looking down to floor of arena

Roman Aqueduct: Overall view, from below

Roman Theater, Verona: View looking up from floor of cavea at seating and loggia

Rotunda Room, Belvedere Palace, the Vatican Museums

Rotunda Unknown God, Rome, Italy

Royal Palace of Naples: Façade of the royal palace from Piazza del Plebiscito

Royal Palace of Naples: Raking view of western facade showing pedimented windows and sculpture

Royal Palace of Turin: Overall elevated view, looking down the square at the facade

Saint Longinus: Overall view

Saint Mark's: Cloister of Saint Antoninus: View of the arcade surrounding the courtyard of the cloister

Saint Peter's Basilica: Angels and Holy Water basin

Saint Peter's Basilica: Overall view

Saint Peter's Basilica: Overall view of facade viewed from the Piazza San Pietro

Saint Peter's Basilica: View of Papal Altar

Saint Peter's Basilica: View of portico

Saint Peter's Basilica: View of the crossing from the transept, with the baldacchino at center

Saint Peter's Basilica: View of the crossing from the transept, with the baldacchino at center

Saint Peter's Church, Benedictine Abbey, Assisi: Raking view showing flat Romanesque facade

Saint Peter: Overall view

Salerno Cathedral: Detail, the Porta dei Leoni across the main entrance

Salerno Cathedral: Detail, the Porta dei Leoni across the main entrance and on the west side

San Apostoli, Venice: Detail, base of campanile and the campo

San Bartolomeo all'Isola: Overall view, Baroque facade, guglia and Torre dei Caetani behind

San Cataldo: Exterior showing blind arches, bulge domes and Arab-style merlons

San Clemente: Exterior view of side entrance behind cloister

San Clemente: Interior detail of ciborium over shrine