Open Galleries and Monuments, Campo Santo, Genoa, Italy
Collection: Europe
Title
Open Galleries and Monuments, Campo Santo, Genoa, Italy
Subject
Genoa (Italy)
Description
On verso:
No. 271. OPEN GALLERIES AND MONUMENTS, CAMPO SANTO, GENOA, ITALY.
“Campo Santo” is the Italian designation for a cemetery, but more especially for an inclosed place surrounded by an arcade and designed to receive the remains of persons of distinction. Archbishop Ubaldo, when driven out of Palestine by Sultan Saladin in the twelfth century, in leaving the Holy Land took away with him as much soil as he could carry in his 53 ships, and this soil he deposited in Pisa on a spot which he consecrated to the burial of men who had deserved well of the republic. The name ‘‘Campo Santo” is given to all similar places in Italy. The Campo Santo of Genoa is celebrated for the richness of its statuary, its fine open galleries and its magnificent vista over the bay of Genoa. Travelers say that Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, N. Y., reminds them forcibly of Genoa’s famous burying place.
A8523
Creator
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)]
Source
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Publisher
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Date
ca. 1890-1900
Rights
Format
image/jpeg
Language
English
Type
Stereographs
Identifier
271
Citation
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)], “Open Galleries and Monuments, Campo Santo, Genoa, Italy,” Digital Canton, accessed December 25, 2024, https://canton.digitalsckls.info/item/573.
Original Format
Stereograph
Physical Dimensions
7 x 3.5 inches
Title
Open Galleries and Monuments, Campo Santo, Genoa, Italy
Subject
Genoa (Italy)
Description
On verso:
No. 271. OPEN GALLERIES AND MONUMENTS, CAMPO SANTO, GENOA, ITALY.
“Campo Santo” is the Italian designation for a cemetery, but more especially for an inclosed place surrounded by an arcade and designed to receive the remains of persons of distinction. Archbishop Ubaldo, when driven out of Palestine by Sultan Saladin in the twelfth century, in leaving the Holy Land took away with him as much soil as he could carry in his 53 ships, and this soil he deposited in Pisa on a spot which he consecrated to the burial of men who had deserved well of the republic. The name ‘‘Campo Santo” is given to all similar places in Italy. The Campo Santo of Genoa is celebrated for the richness of its statuary, its fine open galleries and its magnificent vista over the bay of Genoa. Travelers say that Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, N. Y., reminds them forcibly of Genoa’s famous burying place.
A8523
Creator
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)]
Source
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Publisher
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Date
ca. 1890-1900
Rights
Format
image/jpeg
Language
English
Type
Stereographs
Identifier
271
Citation
[Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)], “Open Galleries and Monuments, Campo Santo, Genoa, Italy,” Digital Canton, accessed December 25, 2024, https://canton.digitalsckls.info/item/573.Original Format
Stereograph
Physical Dimensions
7 x 3.5 inches