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Does anybody know of any institutions who have Adolphe Braun photographs of the vault of the Sistine Chapel? Here in the History of Art Department at the University of Oxford we have a full set of 125 carbon prints that measure aprox 49x63cm. I have tried to find other institutions who may have a full series or part of it in any size but particularly in this larger scale. I see that the Getty have a set of 7 or 8.
http://ox.libguides.com/visualresourcescentre/braun
Any help would be much appreciated.
Francesca
Visual Resources Assistant
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The National Gallery of Art's Department of Image Collections owns 88 Braun Sistine Chapel carbon prints at that size. Unfortunately we do not know when they came into the collection.
It is wonderful to have more information about this set!
All the best,
Missy Lemke
Image Specialist for Italian Art
National Gallery of Art Library, Department of Image Collections
How exciting!
Dear Francesca,
you should have a look at the catalogue of the big Adolphe Braun exhibition that took place in 2017 in Munich. I remember that they showed also some photographs from the Sistina series.
Adolphe Braun : ein europäisches Photographie-Unternehmen und die Bildkünste im 19. Jahrhundert
https://aleph.mpg.de/F/PKMDPY57L2Y2DBNL58EARN7BX7M21XRXLDB63TDRH8YJ...
best wishes,
Costanza Caraffa
According to the Vatican Museums' regulations, photographers and other artists (e.g. engravers) were obligated to hand in a copy of their work to the Vatican institutions. Since the Fototeca Vaticana as the Vatican Museums' photographic library is basically of later origin, the original photographs presented to the pope by Braun are to be found in the photographic collection of the Biblioteca Vaticana and the Accademia di San Luca.
Best wishes
Tamara Tolnai
Thank you both.
Ruth - thanks for pointing me to the Braun catalogue.
Anthony - Yes I have read Art and the Early Photographic Album but it was a few years ago now so thanks for reminding me about Philippe Jarjat's chapter.
The South Kensington Museum (V&A) purchased a set on the 11th May 1870 for £50. nos 69.090-60.214 in Portfolio 339.
The Royal Academy of Arts, London may also have a copy.
You may already have read Philippe Jarjat "Michelangelo's Frescoes through the Camera's Lens: The Photographic Album and Visual Identity" in Art and the Early Photographic Album, Yale University Press, 2011.
Regards
Anthony Hamber
Hello,
The "old" art history institutions in Florence and Rome could have something:
- British School at Rome
- Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome
- Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence
The latter has at least a printed catalogue of Braun online:
http://aleph.mpg.de/F?func=direct&doc_number=001995164&loca...
Best ask at the KHI or BH photo collections directly since there might be something missing in the libraries catalogues.
Best
Ruth Bussche
Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.
National Portrait Gallery, London
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
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