Detail of The Creation of Adam by Italian artist Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), Sistine Chapel, The Vatican, Vatican City, circa 1508 - 1512. Photography by Adolphe Braun (1812-1877), 1869.

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Medium: carbon print Publication: Stephen Bann, Art and the Early Photographic Album, National Gallery of Art, Washington, , 2011, pg 168   Other Collections: Bodleian Library, Getty, Royal Academy, Bibliotheque Centrale des Musees Nationaux Paris, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca Rome    Notes: Adolphe Braun (1812-1877) was a French photographer whose studio, Braun et Cie., specialised in the development of landscape pictures and art historical images. In 1870 Braun et Cie published a set of 125 loose mounted photographs (using a carbon printing process) of the Sistine Chapel, taken by a team composed of Braun’s brother Charles, and Braun’s two sons, Henri and Gaston the year before. These images meticulously surveyed the frescoes decorating the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. At the time of their release they constituted the only existing photographic record of the chapel’s interior. These large photographs exemplify Braun’s technical abilities in successfully capturing the curved surface of the ceiling

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Size: 3910px × 3019px
Location: Vatican City
Photo credit: © Archive Farms. Inc / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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