[Illustrated arithmetic problem showing man stamping on fruit in recta...
Woodcut illus. and text in: Aritmetica / Filippo Calandri. Florence : L. Morgiani and J. Petri, 1492. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 234.
L'Aquatinta magnanimo duca. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Decorated initial L showing mathematician Luca Paccioli as Franciscan monk, surrounded by text, and rope-patterened border. Illus. and text in: Somma di arithmetica, geometria, proporzione e proporzionalita / L... More
Architectural diagram - [Design for a church façade], public domain im...
Public domain image of a historic building, 16th-17th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Prospettiva della seconda macchina de fuochi d'artificio, rappresentan...
Print showing aristocratic men leaving their horses with attendants and following guides on a trail up the side of Vesuvius to peer into the fuming cones. At center, descending the volcano, are three figures, t... More
[Capriccio with reminiscences of Padua], engraving, Library of Congres...
Public domain scan of 17th-18th century Italian print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Annibale Carracci - Reticelle, e merletti / AC I.
Print showing a full-length portrait of a pasta vendor. Illus. in: Diverse figure al numero di ottanta, plate 15. Title from list of plates.
Spazza cammino (i.e., camino) / Anib Cara. In. ; S. Guillain scu.
Print showing a full-length portrait of a chimney sweep. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Hunting lodge with pavilions. Gateway, piers, and fencing. Plan and e...
Watercolor rendering attributed to School of Turin, showing monumental fence and gateway for a hunting lodge or castle, in plan and elevation. No. 16. Kenneth H. Walker Collection. Item conserved and/or rehous... More
[Hunting lodge with pavilions] - Architectural drawing, public domain ...
Watercolor rendering attributed to School of Turin, showing a hunting lodge or castle in elevation and section, and row of 7 pavilions in elevation. No. 8, suite de 11. Kenneth H. Walker Collection. Gift; Nanc... More
[Hunting lodge with pavilions. Site plan]
Watercolor rendering attributed to School of Turin, showing site plan for a hunting lodge or castle with 14 pavilions, each having a walled garden. No. 8 bis, suite de 11. Kenneth H. Walker Collection. Gift; N... More
Le grand teatre de la guerre en Italie.
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
[Title page with vignette of allegorical scene]
Illus. in: Antiquitates italicae medii aevi, sive Dissertationes de moribus, ritibus, religione, regimine, magistratibus, legibus, studiis literarum, artibus, lingua, militia, nummis, principibus, libertate, s... More
A B vue des restes interieurs d'un des pronaos du temple de Neptune .....
View of the interior of the temple of Neptune, with lettered key. Title from shelflist card. Vertical crease down center. Planche XIII. Béraldi, 13.
Canaletto - [Mountain landscape with three bridges]
George Lothrop Bradley Collection. Constable, no. 25.
À Vietri suite de IV vuës dessineés dans le Roïaume de Naples et grave...
Print shows travelers stopping near a tree on a road through the mountains to Vietri sul Mare, with the tops of buildings, ship masts, and the harbor at center, and mountains in the background. Printed at top ... More
[Legs of dissected frogs, and various metallic apparatus used to measu...
Illus. in: Abhandlung uber die Krafte der thiereschen Elektrizitat auf die Bewegung der Muskeln / Luigi Galvani. Eine Uebersetztung, Prag. : J.G. Calve, 1793. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C.... More
[Eh bien, Messieurs! deux millions], Political Cartoon
Print shows Napoleon Bonaparte motioning toward a statue, one of the many treasures he brought back from his first campaign in Italy in 1797, and addresses a group of men, possibly of the Directory. Title from ... More
Italia map - Public domain vintage map
Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.
[Village on the banks of a river] / A. Canal f.
Print shows a view across a river of many buildings of an unidentified city; a lone scrawny tree and footbridge dominate the foreground. Title from mount. Hubbard collection. Published in: Viewpoints; a selecti... More
L'Imperatore Trajano, alla caccia / Pinelli inv. e inc. Roma 1829.
Trajan, emperor of Rome, on horseback with spear, hunting wild boar. LC no. 74.
[Imperial stable at Polesella Venetia. Elevation and section ] / A. Be...
Prospetto e Spaccato della Scuderia ad uso dell' Imp. R. Posta Cavalli in Polesella. Item conserved and/or rehoused. See Supplementary Material for prior mats and mounts. Kenneth H. Walker Collection. Gift; Ke... More
[Balloon with parachute and propellers, associated with Francesco Orla...
Public domain image of a balloon aerostat, early aeronautics, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alexandre Farnese III duc de Parme--Gouverneur des Pays Bas + 1592
Alexandro Farnese, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
General Swallow-all-o feasting on a French fricassee!!, British Cartoo...
Print shows a gigantic Russian soldier, possibly a gross caricature of Field Marshal Aleksandr Vasilʹevich Suvorov, eating the severed head of a French soldier, another oversized man, a chef, holds a platter co... More
Churches La Madonna & St. Celso. Architecture of 1860s Europe
In album: Genoa, Pisa, Nice, Avignon, Parma, Milan, Verona, Vienna, p. 112, back. No. 73. No. 218.
Trafoi - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph
Village in alps. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 46, top row, second from left.
The Ortler Spitz - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph
Public domain photograph of 19th-century vintage card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Stelvio Pass--Madatsh Glacier - Public domain albumen print photogrpap...
In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 46, center right.
Harbor and docks with fishing smacks, Italy
Attributed to Frank Duveneck. Public domain photograph - historical image of Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ortler - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph
In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 46, bottom row, second from left.
Columns of San Lorenzo. Part of Roman temple of Hercules
In album: Genoa, Pisa, Nice, Avignon, Parma, Milan, Verona, Vienna, p. 113, back. No. 220.
Ortler and glaciers - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph
In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 46, top row, right.
Ortler - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph
In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 46, lower left.
Bernina Pass--ascent from Italian side
House and covered road on Bernina Pass. In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 45, upper left.
Madatsch G. - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph
In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 46, lower right.
Toward Trafoi from Franzenhohe - Public domain albumen print photogrpa...
In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 46, center, left.
Valley of Trafoi - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph
In album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, opposite p. 46, top row, second from right.
Sic itur ad astra. Rodolfo Afflitto da Montefiascone, un ciccio ad inc...
Italian cartoon shows a man sitting on an upside-down balloon labeled "Prefettura di Napoli," using the balloon basket as a parachute. Illus. from an unidentified periodical. Tissandier collection.
[Watt portrait of Lincoln.]. American Civil War 1861-1865.
Picryl description: Public domain scan of Italian print, mid-19th century albumen print, no copyright restrictions.
Mount Vesuvius, active - Drawing. Public domain image.
Photograph shows an eruption at Mount Vesuvius spewing a tall column of smoke and ash above the volcano. Caption: L'eruzione del Vesuvio, 26 Aprile 1872 ore, 3 1/2 PM. No. 6103.
Auguri e felicitazioni, Tissandier Collection, France
A humorous print from an Italian illustrated periodical shows frogs dressed in street clothes climbing out of a packing crate carrying New Year's greetings on strips of paper, while a well-dressed woman watche... More
[San Giorgio], Italy. 19th century, Library of Congress collection
Picryl description: Public domain image of a harbor, sailing ship, boat, city building, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
James McNeill Whistler - [Turkeys] / [butterfly monogram].
Print showing turkeys grazing in courtyard, a woman standing next to a large wellhead, and a building in the background. Title from Kennedy. Signed on plate with butterfly and in pencil. From: Second Venice Set... More
Due uomini che attendono alla pelature di un maiale (Farnese)
Photograph of greco-roman statue showing two men applying themselves to the skinning of a wild pig; one tends the fire while the other scrapes the skin of the pig hanging over the edge of a cauldron. (Edne. Ali... More
[Ponale Road and view of Riva, Lake Garda, Italy]
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "8778". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at ht... More
Globo furbovolponico-politico-areostatico a prova di bomba e pistola
Italian caricature of Italian statesman Francesco Crispi shown as a balloon "Ciccio" hovering above a group of men and women representing the country, the majority, the press, the opposition, the government, an... More
Portrait photo of Italʹi︠a︡nki - Public domain portrait print
Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Prokudin Gorskii: V Italīi. Color separation negative
Woman in formal dress, posed, standing near gate. Public domain photograph - female portrait, 1900s women, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Katolicheskīĭ monastyrʹ [Itali︠a︡]
An old photo of a church with a clock tower. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Portrait photo of Italʹi︠a︡nki - Public domain portrait print
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Prokudin Gorskii: V Italīi. Color separation negative
Woman in formal dress, posed, sitting at table with vase of flowers, on a balcony overlooking a field.
Red Cross dog - Italy, Italy. Photo by Bain News Service collection
George Grantham Bain Collection. No. 636-9. Public domain photograph - historical image of Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Scene from the silent film "The last days of Pompeii" showing priests...
Public domain photo of Italian landscape, historic place, Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
[Scene from the silent film "The last days of Pompeii" showing a young...
J185325 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1913 by Photo Drama Co. The last days of Pompeii, after the novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, was an Italian production released through George Kleine. It was an elaborate... More
Poster - Cacciali via! / U. Finozzi. - Public domain lithograph
Poster shows a mother holding her child as a soldier, holding a dagger, rushes forward toward flames. Text: Drive them out!
Date denaro per la vittoria; la vittoria è la pace. Banca Italiana di ...
Poster shows a cannon, resting on a pile of coins, pointing upwards toward the mountains. Text encourages people to donate money for victory and peace.
Aiutateci a vincere! la Banca commerciale Italiana / Barchi ; L'Idea.
Poster shows an Italian soldier holding his bayoneted rifle in one hand and pointing with the other. Behind him, a conflagration. Text advertises the latest subscription for war bonds.
La Banca popolare di Milano ... prestito nazionale 5 %
Poster announces a new 5% national loan issued by the Banca Popolare di Milano.
Hail to our ally : the spirit of Italy
Public domain scan of 18th century Italian drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Banca Italiana di Sconto / E. Lionne.
Poster shows a soldier and his daughter. The daughter raises her coin bank as soldiers march by.
Esposizione Raemaekers / Louis Raemaekers.
Poster shows a cocky Uncle Sam, wearing soldier's boots and smoking a cigarette, facing a German butcher wearing a blood-soaked apron and a soldier's helmet. Poster announces an exhibition of Raemaekers' work.
American poets' ambulances in Italy, 1917
Poster showing an ambulance truck being pulled by a winged horse. Caption: Pegasus at work for the Allies. Inscribed: To the Library of Congress, compliments of Robert Underwood Johnson, chairman of the committ... More
Poster - Prestito Nazionale di Guerra - Public domain lithograph
Poster shows a crowd of people on a plaza in front of a bank. Text: National War Loan.
Sottoscrivete al prestito / G. Capranesi.
Poster shows a classical female figure, representing Italy, wearing a crown, armor and drapped in the Italian flag, holding a sword toward a Nordic(?) warrior coming over mountains. Text: Subscribe to the [nati... More
Per la libertà e la civiltà del mondo / M. Dudovich.
Poster shows soldiers from Italy, Great Britain, France and the United States and their respective flags. Text encourages people to subscribe to the National Loan for the liberty of the civilized world.
Il lavoro, ecco il nuovo dovere! ... Prestito Nazion[ale]
Poster shows a woman, the personification of Italy, with her arm around a war veteran's shoulders as she gestures to factories in background. Text: Work - the new duty.
Armi della morte -- armi per la vita! Sottoscrivete al prestito della ...
Poster shows two young men working at a forge, changing weapons into plows. Text: Weapons for death -- weapons for life! Subscribe to the Victory Loan.
Per la Patria i mieli occhi! Per la Pace il vosto denaro. Prestito Naz...
Poster shows a wounded Italian soldier with blood stained bandages wrapped around his eyes. Text: For the country, my eyes, for peace, your money. National Consolidated Loan ...
Poster - Finalmente!! / LM. - Public domain lithograph
Poster shows a woman in a red gown (Trieste) and a woman in a green gown (Trento) kneeling before a woman in white gown and crown and holding a sword (Italy); in background soldiers march to battle and planes f... More
Prestito nazionale rendita consolidata 5% netto / M. Borgoni.
Poster shows a frightened man clutching an Italian flag in one hand and a sword in another. Poster announces a 5% national consolidated loan. Details are given.
[Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati, Lazio, Italy. Water chain]
Site History. House Architecture: Medieval castle rebuilt in 1663 and 1667. Associated Name: Hervey de Saint-Denis. Other: Walter Gay and Matilda Travis Gay lived here at the time Johnston photographed. Today:... More
Im italienischen Kampfgebiet zwischen Brenta u. Piave: Neuester Film /...
Poster advertises latest war film "On the Italian Battlefield between Brenta and Piave." Film title is written over a coat of arms. Forms part of: Rehse-Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik.
Italy's spirit unbroken / exclusive from Alice Rohe.
Images relating to World War I in Italy. One image shows Italian soldiers seated in a outdoor theater watching a performance. Two other images depict Italians laying flowers at the foot of a Statue of Victor Em... More
Poster - Attenti! ...veleno! / Zamo. - Public domain lithograph
Poster shows a hand strangling a snake decorated with the German Iron Cross. Text: Attention! The German viper is taken. It is now necessary to pull out the poisonous teeth!
Adelaide Johnson standing in front of marble which would be used for W...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Adelaide Johnson standing outside in front of a large slab of marble and near cattle and trees. Photograph published in The Suffragist, 8, no. 9 (Oct. 1920): n.p.
In Italy the trains stop at the stations and the passengers get down t...
Photograph shows newspaper vendors at railroad stations and railroad employees closing doors of a train car, Italy. On page: no. 1556 (top image), no. 1557 (middle image), and no. 1558 (bottom image). Text und... More
[Men carrying coal in small boat, Malta] [Rooftops with dome of church...
(Source similar image in album: LC-USZC4-14923) On page: no. 1576 (left image) and no. 1577 (right image). In album: European pictures (1923 trip), p. [156]. Negative series code written on page: C262. Copyrig... More
In Italy the trains stop at the stations and the passengers get down t...
Photographs show passengers and a food vendor near a train station, police officers at a train station, and railroad workers closing doors of railway cars, Italy. On page: no. 1554 (top image), no. 1553 (middl... More
[Trees in a landscape, Italy?] [Men carrying coal in small boat, Malta...
(Source similar image in album: LC-USZ62-14923) On page: no. 1572 (top image) and no. 1573 (bottom image). In album: European pictures (1923 trip), p. [154]. Negative series code written on page: C262. Copyrig... More
[Villa Bel Riposo, San Domenico, Tuscany, Italy. Terrace]
Site history. Associated Name: Leonardo Bruni. Other: George Gregory Smith owned this villa in 1925. Also known as Villa La Fante. Today: Private house and garden restored, used for the Max Webber Programme. On... More
[Villa Reale di Castello, Castello, Tuscany, Italy. Grotto of the anim...
Site History. House architecture: Niccolò Tribolo (also known as Niccolò di Raffaello or Niccolò di Pericoli). Landscape: Grotto designed by Niccolò Tribolo before 1540 and finished by Gorgio Vasari in the 1560... More
[Villa Bel Riposo, San Domenico, Tuscany, Italy. Tennis Court Pergola]
Site history. Associated Name: Leonardo Bruni. Other: George Gregory Smith owned this villa in 1925. Also known as Villa La Fante. Today: Private house and garden restored, used for the Max Webber Programme. On... More
[Villa Gamberaia, Settignano, Tuscany, Italy. Topiary arcade]
Site History. House Architecture: Zanobi Lapi, 1610- 1630. Landscape: Zanobi Lapi and others, from 1610. Also, water terrace created on south parterre by Princess Jeanne Ghyka and Martino Porcinai from 1896. Ot... More
Italy, Villa Bel Riposo, Fiesole [i.e. San Domenico], "Cedars of Leban...
Frances Benjamin Johnston displayed this image in her 1926 Ferargil Galleries exhibition. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Gardens for a Beautiful Americ... More
[Villa Bel Riposo, San Domenico, Tuscany, Italy. Pergola steps]
Site history. Associated Name: Leonardo Bruni. Other: George Gregory Smith owned this villa in 1925. Also known as Villa La Fante. Today: Private house and garden restored, used for the Max Webber Programme. On... More
[Villa Bel Riposo, San Domenico, Tuscany, Italy. Shrine]
Site history: Landscape: Leonardo Bruni. Associated Name: George Gregory Smith. Other: In 1925, George Gregory Smith owned this villa. Also known as Villa La Fante. Today: Private house and garden restored used... More
[Villa I Tatti, Ponte a Mensola, near Settignano, Italy. View to villa...
Site History. House Architecture: Cecil Ross Pinset, from 1909. Landscape: Cecil Ross Pinset, from 1909, and with Geoffrey Scott from 1914. Associated Name: Bernard and Mary Smith (Mrs. Bernard) Berenson. Today... More
[Villa I Tatti, Ponte a Mensola, near Settignano, Italy. View from vil...
Site History. House Architecture: Cecil Ross Pinset, from 1909. Landscape: Cecil Ross Pinset, from 1909, and with Geoffrey Scott from 1914. Associated Name: Bernard and Mary Smith (Mrs. Bernard) Berenson. Today... More
[Botanical Garden, Isola Madre, Lake Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. Stairw...
Site history: Bought by Count Lancilloto Borromeo in 1501. Today: Public site. On slide: Yellow-gold star sticker. On slide (printed): "Edward Van Altena" and "71-79 W. 45th St., N.Y.C." (slide manufacturer). S... More
Frances Benjamin Johnston - [Unidentified house, probably Italy. Topia...
On slide: Yellow-gold star sticker. On slide (printed): "Edward Van Altena" and "71-79 W. 45th St., N.Y.C." (slide manufacturer). Slide for lecturing on "Old World Gardens." Title, date, and subject information... More
[Villa Reale di Castello, Castello, Tuscany, Italy. Grotto of the anim...
Site History. House Architecture: Niccolò Tribolo (also known as Niccolò di Raffaello or Niccolò di Pericoli). Landscape: Grotto designed by Niccolò Tribolo before 1540 and finished by Gorgio Vasari in the 1560... More
[Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati, Lazio, Italy. Water terrace]
Picryl description: Public domain image of a waterfall, cascade, water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
[Villa Gamberaia, Settignano, Tuscany, Italy. Water terrace]
Site History. House architecture: Zanobi Lapi, 1610- 1630. Landscape: Zanobi Lapi and others, from 1610. Other: Water terrace created on south parterre by Princess Jeanne Ghyka and Martino Porcinai from 1896. T... More
Poster - Italian lakes - Public domain lithograph
Poster showing a lake and mountains, with the bell tower of a church in the foreground.
Aperitivo Rossi / Jean Droit., Italy
Poster showing a bottle of Martini & Rossi's Aperitivo resting on top of an orange with a face licking its lips.
A Nazi bridge is put out of commission. Black smoke engulfs a railway ...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
French airmen hit a pinpoint target. Flying with the Mediterranean All...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, train viaduct, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Bombs hurtle toward a Nazi highway bridge. With their rail and shippin...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Nazi motor transport was blown off the road by Allied bombers striking...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.