Le Moïse de Michel Ange. (San Pietro in Vincoli)

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Le Moïse de Michel Ange. (San Pietro in Vincoli)

Creator

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
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View of the marble statue of Moses by Michelangelo in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli. The biblical figure sits with one arm hooked over the side of his chair and his head, adorned with horns, turns toward his left.

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