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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Chiesa di San Francesco d'Assisi, Palermo: View of main portal and rose window

Chiesa di San Giorgio in Braida: Interior, nave looking towards altar, showing dome

Chiesa di San Martino, adjacent to the Loggia del Papa, Siena, Italy

Chiesa di San Paolo, Pistoia: Raking view of facade with bicolored marble facing

Church and Convent of Santa Chiara: Overall view of facade with flying buttress

Church of Saint Anastasia, Verona: Distant view, across the river from the east with campanile

Church of Saint Anastasia, Verona: Interior, nave looking towards altar

Church of Saint Anastasia, Verona: Overall view of unfinished brick facade

Church of Saint Andrew, Pistoia: Interior, nave looking towards altar with the Pisano pulpit to the left

Church of Saint Andrew, Pistoia: Overall view of the Giovanni Pisano pulpit without the eagle lecturn on top

Church of Saint Andrew, Pistoia: Overall view, facade with bichrome marble

Church of Saint Augustine, Cremona: Baroque interior, nave looking towards altar

Church of Saint Augustine, Cremona: Raking view of facade

Church of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Pisa: Overall view of facade

Church of Saint Francis, Rimini: Detail of facade by Alberti

Church of Saint John the Evangelist: Central facade showing portal behind porch screen

Church of Saint Louis of the French, Rome: Overall raking view, facade by della Porta

Church of Saint Luke and Chapel of the Risen Christ: Overall view of the chapel to the left and the church facade

Church of San Bernardino: Interior, Pellegrini Chapel with niche tabernacles

Church of San Bernardino: Overall view, facade of San Bernardino with monastery cloister to the left

Church of San Vitale: Detail, exterior showing the square apsed chancel to the east

Church of San Vitale: Detail, reused Roman relief fragment in the choir

Church of San Vitale: Exterior detail showing buttresses

Church of San Vitale: Interior detail, carved and tiled impost block below the tympanum of choir

Church of San Vitale: Interior view looking into niches framing the ambulatory and matroneum

Church of San Vitale: Interior, altar in front of the apse and bishop's seat

Church of San Vitale: Overall exterior view

Church of San Vitale: Sarcophagus in interior of San Vitale

Church of Sant Ercolano: Overall view, showing polygonal tower

Church of Santa Pudenziana: Overall view; top of the entrance pediment visible below street level