[Spanish Steps, Rome]

Pietro Dovizielli Italian

Not on view

Made in late afternoon light, Pietro Dovizielli’s picture shows a long shadow cast onto Rome’s Piazza di Spagna that almost obscures one of the market stalls flanking the base of the famed Spanish Steps. Rising above the sea of stairs is the church of Trinità dei Monti, its facade neatly bisected by the Sallustiano obelisk. In the piazza, a lone figure—the only visible inhabitant of this eerily empty public square—rests against the railing of the Barcaccia fountain. Keenly composed pictures like this led reviewers of Dovizielli’s photographs to proclaim them "the very paragons of architectural photography."

[Spanish Steps, Rome], Pietro Dovizielli (Italian, 1804–1885), Albumen silver print from glass negative

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