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| The Chronology |
1832 -
Birth of Leopoldo Alinari, second child of a working class family in the Florentine quarter of San Frediano.
1852 - With the financial help of Giuseppe Bardi, copperplate engraver with whom he was apprenticed, Leopoldo Alinari sets up a small photographic laboratory in Via Cornina (now Via del Trebbio). The name and mark “Alinari” appears for the first time.
1854 - The firm known as Fratelli Alinari is founded. Leopoldo's two brothers, Giuseppe (1836-1890) and Romualdo (1830-1890) are partners, the former in the field of photography, the latter in administration. The Alinari firm is represented with eight photographs in the 1854 exhibition in Florence in the I. e R. Istituto Tecnico.
1855 - This is the year in which the Alinari are affirmed as internationally known photographers, with their first official presentation at the Paris Exposition. By July there are 84 titles in their sales catalogue: thirty-nine of Florence, twenty-five of Pisa, twelve of Siena, and eight of other places in the Grand Duchy.
1856 - In April and September two catalogues are published in French, proposing a selection of the most important buildings and works of art in the cities of the Grand Duchy and the State of the Church (Perugia, Assisi, Todi, Viterbo).
Eighteen photographs of the Florentine studio are shown in the Photographic Exposition of Brussels, next to photographs of Italian art by Lorent, Perini and Sacchi.
1857 - The catalogue is composed of two sheets and contains numerous new subjects, in addition to a sheet listing fifty subjects chosen from the Uffizi Gallery, officially confirming the firm's specialization in the photographic reproduction of works of art.
1858 - The Alinaris are commissioned by Prince Albert of England to photograph Raphael’s drawings in the Accademia Gallery in Venice and the private collection of the Archduke Charles of Habsburg in Vienna.
1859 - The 1858 photographic campaign leads to the publication of the collection titled
"Disegni di Raffaello e d'altri maestri esistenti nelle gallerie di Firenze Venezia e Vienna riprodotti in fotografia dai Fratelli Alinari e pubblicati da L. Bardi in
Firenze". The collection consisted of 310 photographs and was sold at the price of 1000 (gold) Italian Lire.
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