Untitled (II 8)
c. 1890
Medium
Photogravure, No. II 8 from the portfolio "Calli, Canali e Isole della Laguna"
Dimensions
Image: 33 × 23 cm (13 × 9 1/16 in.); Paper: 55.1 × 37.1 cm (21 3/4 × 14 5/8 in.)
Classification
photograph
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
225580
Art Historical Context
Step into the enchanting world of late 19th-century Venice *Untitled (II 8)*, a captivating photogravure by Ferdinando Ongania, created around 1890. As plate No. II 8 from Ongania's renowned portfolio *Calli,ali e Isole della* ("Streets, Can, and Islands of the Lagoon"), this captures the timeless allure of Venice's labyrinthine waterways and hidden alleys. Ongania, a pioneering Venetian publisher and photographer, this series to document the city's fragile beauty at a time when industrialization and tourism were transforming its historic fabric. Photogravure, the medium here, was a revolutio...