Historical Architectural Frescoes

A collection of black-and-white photographs showcasing ornate frescoes and stucco in various historical buildings across Italy, highlighting Baroque and Renaissance artistry.

Umbria Terni Terni Palazzo Montani0. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Post-medieval: Renaissance architecture; frescos (17th century); tapestries after designs of Raphael school; intarsia (furniture); wooden cassone carved with the arms of the Montani Antiquities: Portrait heads in marble of Roman youths and a consul German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.
Umbria Terni Terni Palazzo Montani0. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Post-medieval: Renaissance architecture; frescos (17th century); tapestries after designs of Raphael school; intarsia (furniture); wooden cassone carved with the arms of the Montani Antiquities: Portrait heads in marble of Roman youths and a consul German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.