Immagini di Napoli nell'album D'Amato

Authors

  • Costanza D'Elia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/2499-1422/9343

Keywords:

Napoli, Risanamento, fotografia, illustrazione

Abstract

The essay aims at focusing the life and work of Gennaro D’Amato (1857-1957), Neapolitan painter and photographer as well as journalist and essayist. The rich photographic collection that bears his name is supposed to witness the process of hausmannization Naples went through in the last decades of the XIXth century, and offers a wonderful example of how the image of the town and of its transformation takes shape at the crossroad among photograph, painting, literature. Thus in these years a complex representation of Naples emerges in the tension between two opposite poles: realism and pictoresqueness. Both biases contribute anyway to define the new role of Naples within the Italian nation building.

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Published

2022-12-22

How to Cite

D'Elia, C. (2022). Immagini di Napoli nell’album D’Amato. Eikonocity. History and Iconography of European Cities and Sities, 7(2), 73–89. https://doi.org/10.6093/2499-1422/9343

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