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A sepia-toned photograph of an interior scene. Many marble sculptures line the walls of a room, standing on decorated pedestals. The room itself is ornate, with gilded doorframes and a vaulted, coffered ceiling.
Corso de Tintori
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Corso de Tintori

Artist Giacomo Brogi (Italian, 1822 - 1881)
Dateundated
MediumAlbumen print
Dimensions5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of William Zewadski
Object number2010.52.4
Collections
Visual DescriptionA sepia-toned photograph of an interior scene. Many marble sculptures line the walls of a room, standing on decorated pedestals. The room itself is ornate, with gilded doorframes and a vaulted, coffered ceiling.
A sepia-toned duplicate photograph of a sculpture gallery. Several sculptures stand on pedestals at the left and right foreground. Behind them are plants and fluted columns that frame the central sculpture in the background. The glass ceiling lets in natural light.
[Sculpture gallery]
Unknown
undated
A sepia-toned photograph of three sculptures by Antonio Canova in the Vatican Museum: Creugas (1796, marble), Perseus (1790, marble), and Damoxenos (1796, marble) from left to right. Perseus stands in the center of the composition. He is placed atop a pedestal in an arched alcove, draped in cloth and holding a sword in his right hand and the severed head of Medusa in his left. On either side of him lies a statue of a boxer, nude except for a fig leaf and preparing for a fight.
Sala del Perseo- Museo Vaticano
Unknown
undated
A duplicate photograph of the sculpture Wrestlers (Roman, marble copy of Greek original, Uffizi Gallery). The sculpture depicts two nude Greek wrestlers. The top figure straddles the bottom figure and creates leverage with his arm. The bottom figure twists, preparing to throw off the top figure. The sculpture is placed on a wooden pedestal and sits in front of a gilded frame and curtain.
[Nude wrestlers sculpture]
Sommer and Behles
undated
A sepia-toned photograph of the sculpture Antinous Farnese (Rome, 130–137 CE, marble, Naples National Archaeological Museum). Antinous stands in contrapposto, placing his weight on his right leg, which is supported by a marble pillar. He looks to his bottom right while bending his left arm.
Antinoo
Unknown
undated
A sepia-toned photograph of the sculpture Laocoön and His Sons (Hellenistic Greece, marble, Vatican Museums). The central figure of Laocoön and his sons flanking him struggle to free themselves from serpents. Their writhing bodies create sinuous lines that convey movement.
Laocoonte
Unknown
undated
A sepia-toned duplicate photograph of a marble sculpture of a nude woman is viewed from behind, the figure facing left. She holds a cloth in her right hand. Her left hand wraps around the front of her body, invisible to the viewer.
[Nude female sculpture]
William England
undated
A sepia-toned photograph of a sculpture of a nude couple embracing, entitled Wiedersehen (Ferdinand Lepcke, 1904, marble copy of bronze original). The man stands atop a pedestal, spreading his legs and holding the woman in his arms. She has one foot on the pedestal and one foot a step below it, extending her body upwards into the arms and kiss of her lover.
[Nude couple sculpture]
Unknown
undated
A sepia print of an ornate classical frame flanked by two figures on pedestals with heavily shaded legs and lightly outlined torsos. Between them, a complex tangled mass of flowing lines hovers over a central pedestal holding a textured organic object.
In Combattimento di Trancredi e Clorinda I
Jiri Anderle
1972
A sepia-toned photograph overlooking a village of flat-roofed, multi-tiered adobe structures. Wooden ladders lean against the walls, and a large round pot sits in the foreground. Beyond the buildings, an expansive, flat plain stretches toward a distant plateau.
View in Zuni Looking S.E.
John K. Hillers
c. 1886
A black-and-white composite photograph of a room with painted walls, a patterned mosaic floor, and a central daybed. A glowing cloud floats below the dark ceiling. Two faint human silhouettes appear behind a bright window.
Untitled
Jerry Uelsmann
1993
A black and white photograph of a nude female figure. She balances on her right leg, bending her left knee and raising her left leg behind her. She embraces a marble bust on a pedestal adorned with cloth and flowers. She brings her lips to kiss the sculpture's right cheek. Behind the figure, the railing of a balcony and plants beyond it are visible.
Lebender Marmor [Nude couple living sculpture]
Unknown
undated
Photograph of a shanty in the Global Village and Museum in Americus Georgia
Global Village: Bed on Concrete Block
Andrea Robbins and Max Becher
2003-2005

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