Basilica II, Pompeii, Napoli, Italy

People:

Victor Burgin (photographer)

Title:

Basilica II, Pompeii, Napoli, Italy

Date:

2006

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

sheet: 39 x 26 cm

Reference number:

PH2006:0226

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

Le double est dans le tiroir 12 de la salle de consultation PH.

Inscription:

inscribed - c.: "Before him a wide flight of stone steps / leads to the Basilica, a space flanked by / broken colonnades and enclosed by ruined / walls. Here a woman stands, framed and / diminished by the columns around her. / She is shrouded in a cape and crinoline / skirt, and her face is hidden in the shadow / of a broad brimmed hat. In his letter to / Cornelius Tacitus, Pliny the Younger said / that the eruption of Vesuvius produced a / cloud that resembled a pine tree. Before / her a fallen section of Basilica wall frames / the Gulf of Naples and the umbrella foliage / of a Stone Pine. If she were to look beyond / where he stands she would see the distant / slopes of Vesuvius."

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Commande du CCA / Commissioned by the CCA

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