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XLVII. Naples. Certosa Cloister in San Martino. Begun A.D. 1325 by the Duke of Calabria. Rebuilt A.D. 1600.

Photograph
Artist/Maker

Photograph by Pietro Dovizielli (1804-85) from a set commissioned by Henry Cole in 1859 to document architecture in Naples as reference material for the building projects at the South Kensington Museum, Certosa Cloister in San Martino


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TitleXLVII. Naples. Certosa Cloister in San Martino. Begun A.D. 1325 by the Duke of Calabria. Rebuilt A.D. 1600. (published title)
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Brief description
Photograph by Pietro Dovizielli (1804-85) from a set commissioned by Henry Cole in 1859 to document architecture in Naples as reference material for the building projects at the South Kensington Museum, Certosa Cloister in San Martino
Associated object
38336 (Duplicate)
Bibliographic reference
Barnes, Martin and Christopher Whitehead, ‘The ‘Suggestiveness’ of Roman Architecture: Henry Cole and Pietro Dovizielli’s Photographic Survey of 1859’, Architectural History, 41 (1998), pp. 192-207.
Collection
Accession number
38331

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Record createdFebruary 10, 2015
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