[Statue of Socrates]

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[Statue of Socrates]

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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: 1859
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: Italian
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Photograph of a statue of Socrates, formerly in the collection of the Marchese Giampietro Campana. The statue depicts a male figure dressed in a toga covering most of his body, except for his bare chest, and holding a scroll in his right hand. He also holds another unidentifiable object in his left hand.

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