[Titan Struck Down by Lightning, by Dumont]

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[Titan Struck Down by Lightning, by Dumont]

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Tommaso Cuccioni

Italian Photographer · 1790–1864

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A successful engraver and print dealer in Rome, Tommaso Cuccioni took up photography in 1852. He photographed paintings in the Palazzo Farnese and exhibited views of Rome at the World Exhibition in London in 1862. Upon Cuccioni's death, the business passed to his brother Gioacchino, and what amounted to the copyright went to his wife, Isabella. She carried on her husband's work by purchasing and p

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Date: about 1852–1864
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: Italian
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Photograph of a marble sculpture on display at the Louvre, "Titan Struck Down by Lightning", by Francois Dumont. The sculpture depicts a nude man screaming in pain, stretched upside down on some rocks.

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