Venice in beautiful old color image, 1890
Grand Canal by Moonlight.
These photographs of Belle Epoque Venice were processed and colored using the photochrome process. The Library of Congress's page on the photochrome process makes it clear: "Photochrome prints are ink-based images that are produced through direct photographic transfer of an original negative onto litho and chromographic printing plates."
Hans Jacob Schmidt, the inventor of the photochrome, came up with the technology in the 1880s and incorporated a lithographic limestone tablet with light-sensitive emulsion, then kept it negative for several hours while exposing it to the sun beneath a photo.
While Photocrom prints can look an awful lot like color photographs, if you look at them through a magnifying glass and small dots with an ink-based photomechanical image appear. The photomechanical process allowed the mass production of vivid color prints, each color requiring "a separate asphalt-coated lithographic stone, usually a minimum of six stones and often more than ten stones" (one stone = 6.3 kg) .
Photochrome technology has given us, among other striking pieces of visual history, these succulent images of Venice, which Jan Morris's author once described as "a city less than an experience".
The construction of Venice began in the 5th century AD after the fall of the Roman Empire when refugees from the mainland fled to the islands in the lagoon. Soon, there were many of them who needed more space, so they dropped a wooden pillar deep into the soil below ground.
Above the wooden pillars, they built wooden platforms, and then on top of that, they built their buildings - meaning that Venice is originally built on wood and water. Wood has miraculously avoided decay for centuries because it is not underwater and exposed to oxygen, and also because saltwater has hardened the wood to a more durable stone-like consistency..
Venice is known as "La Domante", "La Serenissima", "Queen of the Adriatic", "City of Water", "City of the City", "City of Bridges", "City of the Floating" and "City" is. Canals ". The lagoon and a portion of the city are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Parts of Venice are noted for their settings, beauty of their architecture and artwork.
Venice is known for many important artistic movements — especially during the Renaissance period — played an important role in the history of symphonic and operative music, and is the birthplace of Antonio Vivaldi.
A view of campanile.
Dogs Palace.
Inside St. Mark's Basilica.
Gondolas and Piazzetta de San Marco.
A procession in front of St. Mark's.
A concert in St. Mark's Square.
The Piazzetta
Secco Marina in San Giuseppe.
Dogs Palace and Piazzetta.
Island of San Giorgio Magigor
The Three Bridges.
A procession on the Grand Canal.
Pesaro Palace on the Grand Canal.
The Grand Canal.
The Grand Canal and The Rialto Bridge.
Paradise Bridge.
The Rialto Bridge.
St. Mark's Square and The Campanile.
Venice.
Palazzo Ducale.
Interior view from San Marco.
A view of feeding pigeons in St. Mark's Piazza.
Venice, 1890.
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