Italian Architectural Photography

Black and white photographs capturing significant Italian architectural features, frescoes, and religious spaces from the 1960s.

Lazio Viterbo Caprarola S. Maria della Consolazione5. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Post-medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture, sculpture, coffering, woodworking, intaglio, fresco painting, painting. 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.
Lazio Viterbo Caprarola S. Maria della Consolazione5. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Post-medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture, sculpture, coffering, woodworking, intaglio, fresco painting, painting. 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.