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| The Chronology |
1861 - Examples of portraits are presented for the first time at the Italian Exposition in Florence. Among these are portraits of the Princes and a highly praised large Panorama of Florence in three parts.
1863 - The Alinari transfer their firm to the large palazzo built in the new quarter known as
"Barbano" in Via Nazionale 8 (later Via Nazionale, 6 and since 1987 Largo Alinari, 15). In June of the same year Leopoldo conducts an important photographic campaign on the royal estate of San Rossore.
1865 - The capital of the Kingdom of Italy is transferred from Turin to Florence and in September the Alinari General Catalogue comes out. In November Leopoldo Alinari dies unexpectedly at the age of thirty-three, leaving his brother Giuseppe as sole head of the artistic/photographic direction of the firm.
1873 - The general catalogue and the subsequent three appendixes, the last of which published in 1887, contain descriptions of the pictures from the photographic campaigns undertaken for the first time in Milan and Naples in 1873, in Rome in 1876, Arezzo, Bologna, Ferrara in 1881, and lastly Ancona, Genoa, Padua, Turin and Venice in 1887.
1876 - Publication of the first photographic campaign of Botticelli's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, commissioned by John Ruskin.
1888 - Collotype prints are first produced, a specialization that was to make the firm's Stamperia d'Arte or Art Printworks famous, with the publication of the
"Raccolta di disegni esistenti nella R. Accademia di Venezia e nella R. Galleria degli
Uffizi" containing 600 collotype plates.
1889 - Giuseppe Alinari continues to experiment with new technical formulas in his quest for photographic 'firsts', such as the full-scale photographic reproductions of pictures in the Florentine Galleries, using collodion plates measuring 130 x 90 centimeters, for which Alinari was awarded the gold medal at the Paris Exposition.
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