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| Fratelli Alinari (Florence) Judith with the head of Holofernes painting by Cristofano Allori formerly ascribed to Bronzino photographed ca. 1880-95 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Fratelli Alinari (Florence) The Concert painting by Titian formerly ascribed to Giorgione Palazzo Pitti, Florence photographed ca. 1880-95 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Fratelli Alinari in Florence began selling souvenir photographs in 1852. It remains in business today as the world's oldest photographic firm. The examples gathered here were produced and marketed at the end of the 19th century and in the first years of the 20th. Most were presumably brought back by Dutch travelers, since they eventually came to rest at the Rijksmuseum – there to be lovingly scanned and freely published.
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| Fratelli Alinari (Florence) Portrait of Baccio Valori painted by Sebastiano del Piombo Palazzo Pitti, Florence photographed ca. 1880-95 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Fratelli Alinari (Florence) Portrait of Margarita Luti (La donna velata) painted by Raphael Palazzo Pitti, Florence photographed ca. 1880-95 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Fratelli Alinari (Florence) Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix marble sculpture by Antonio Canova Galleria Borghese, Rome photographed ca. 1893-1903 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Fratelli Alinari (Florence) Aeneas carrying Anchises out of burning Troy marble sculpture by Gianlorenzo Bernini Galleria Borghese, Rome photographed ca. 1880-95 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Fratelli Alinari (Florence) Venus of Syracuse Roman marble sculpture photographed ca. 1875-1900 Hermitage, St Petersburg |
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| Fratelli Alinari (Florence) Venus of Syracuse Roman marble sculpture photographed ca. 1875-1900 Hermitage, St Petersburg |
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| Fratelli Alinari (Florence) Capitoline Venus Roman marble sculpture photographed c1893-1903 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Fratelli Alinari (Florence) Neptune fountain Boboli Gardens, Florence photographed ca. 1855 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Fratelli Alinari (Florence) Statue Gallery Vatican Museums, Rome photographed ca. 1880-95 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Fratelli Alinari (Florence) Piazza del Popolo, Rome photographed ca. 1880-95 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Fratelli Alinari (Florence) Arch of Constantine, Rome photographed ca. 1893-1903 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Fratelli Alinari (Florence) Roman Forum photographed ca. 1893-1903 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Roman Forum
The Forum, glory of departed time!
Where temples dazzled, arches rose sublime,
And statues burned with life – what see we now?
A few pale columns point to what hath been,
The last, long sorrowing orphans of the scene,
And mouldered walls, fair marbles, ages' spoil,
Reluctant mingle with the meaner soil:
Still Phocas' pillar sturggles with decay,
And thy bold arch, Severus, spans the way;
But gone the car, and lightning-breathing steed,
And where an emperor stood, now waves the weed;
No more along the Forum's stately side
The musing sage sweeps by in toga'd pride,
Or hear we from the platform's glittering beak
The fiery orator in thunder speak;
But there the herdsman leans, and sheep and swine
Pollute the once rich path and radiant shrine:
Caesar, Augustus, Tully! gaze ye here,
Frown from thy grave, and drop th'indignant tear.
– Nicholas Michell (1807-1880)