Giacomo Caneva - Column of Phocas, Roman Forum - image-1

Lot 810 Dα

Giacomo Caneva - Column of Phocas, Roman Forum

Auction 1161 - overview Cologne
07.12.2020, 17:00 - Photography
Estimate: 2.200 € - 2.500 €
Result: 3.000 € (incl. premium)

Giacomo Caneva

Column of Phocas, Roman Forum
c. 1852 - 1853

Salt print from paper negative. 27.5 x 20.8 cm.

When we compare the works of Flachéron and Caneva, the two main protagonists of the Scuola Romana di Fotografia, it becomes clear just how stylistically similar the two artists were. Both were able to depict the ancient structures in all their poetic calm and dignity. They already exhibited their works together with their colleague Eugène Constant at the Art Society in London in 1852.

Literature

Bonetti 2008, ill. p. 65 and p. 149 (cat. 37)