stereo
Titre
Cité du Vatican, la salle Sixtine de la bibliothèque apostolique vaticane
Datation
Entre 1895 et 1920
Datation min.
1895
Datation max.
1920
Commentaire datation
Photographe professionnel
Auteur du cliché
Inconnu
Fonction
Photographe professionnel
Mention d’édition
Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Editeur
,
Laboratoire photographique
Vatian
Légende sur document
(16)-1980. The Library of the Vatican. Rome, Italy - Copyright Underwood & Underwood
Commentaire légende
Légende imprimée en bas à droite sous l'image. Encre de couleur noire.
Lieu
Architecture
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Milieu - Environnement
Objet manufacturé
Texte au recto
A gauche : Underwood & Underwood Publishers New-York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas A droite : Works and studios Arlington NF. Westwood. N.F. Sous l'image de droite : (16)-1980. The Library of the Vatican. Rome, Italy - Copyright Underwood & Underwood
Verso inscrit
oui
Texte au verso
The Christian Church is the greatest organized power on the earth, and we are now standing in the home of its traditional representative. This is one of the eleven thousand rooms and halls of the Vatican in Rome, the official residence of the Pope. We look almost 220 feet toward the east down this stately hall between the frescoed piers under that ceiling alive with saints and angels and flying cherubs; and yet even this is not the largest room in the vast library. There is another just behind us, a fifth of a mile long! The magnificence of this stately hall is appropriate to its service, for it is here that some of the most rare and valuable books in the whole world are being preserved. Those cabinets that stand on both sides of the open corridor guard behind their carved doors printed volumes and ancient manuscripts of which no duplicates exist. Glass cases, like that one just ahead of us at the left, give us opportunity for a brief glance at a Bible faithfully written out in Greek by a 4th century Father; a copy of Virgil, patiently traced by hand in some lonely monastery sixteen hundred years ago - one of the few survivals from that far-off day which helped bridge the gulf of time and let us 20th century men and women know what men and women were thinking while Augustus Caesar was lord of the earth. The table beyond that glass case on the left is itself a work of art in bronze and onyx ; the tall vase which it holds is a beautiful creation of Sèvres porcelain, used as a baptismal font for the Prince Imperial, heir of Napoleon III. It was afterwards sent here as a gift to Pius IX. The other vase is of alabaster, and was a present from the Khedive of Egypt. This room and all the adjoining rooms are filled with such mementoes of the famous and great. See: - Rome Through the Stereoscope, by D. J. Ellison, with special "keyed" maps. Pub. by Under wood & Underwood. The Library of the Vatican, Rome, Italy Bibliothèque du Vatican, Rome, Italie Die vatikanische Bibliothek, Rom, Italien. Biblioteca del Vaticano, Roma, Italia Vatikan bibliotheket, Rom, Italien [---]
Etat de conservation
excellent
Support
Photographies collées sur carton
Dimensions
9 x 18 cm
Info développement
Positif
Info couleur
Noir et Blanc
Propriétaire
M. Magendie
Lieu de conservation
Lescar
Auteur de la numérisation
Philippe Chalons
Type de stéréoscopie sauvegardée
Anaglyphe (bleu / rouge)
Créateur du dépôt
CLEM
Date de dépôt
Janvier 2014
Lot
LOT24_MAGENDIE
Livraison
LIVRAISON_01
iptc (stereo)
Nom usuel
Mag0038
Auteur
Inconnu
Titre
Cité du Vatican, la salle Sixtine de la bibliothèque apostolique vaticane
Date de création
Entre 1895 et 1920
Légende
(16)-1980. The Library of the Vatican. Rome, Italy - Copyright Underwood & Underwood
Ville
Vatian
Pays
Cité du Vatican
Fournisseur
CLEM - Archéovision
Auteur de la description
Catherine Carponsin-Martin
Nom de l'objet: Mag0038
Date d'entrée de l'objet dans ArcheoGRID : 2024-12-05
Collection : repertoire 01