The First Photographs Ever Taken in Rome, Italy (1841-1871) Gioacchino Altobelli & The Old World
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- Today we will be diving into a collection of over 50 photographs, considered to be the first photographs ever taken depicting the ancient monuments and fallen structures of Rome, Italy.
All roads lead to Rome, and in this photographic compilation we will focus on images dated as early as 1841, through photographs taken in approximately 1870.
A majority of these images come to us by way of Gioacchino Altobelli, an Italian painter, who moved to Rome in 1830 to perfect his craft, only to fall in love with the new technology of photography. These are the oldest photographs we currently know exist of Rome. The Old World images today are absolutely stunning - Enjoy, and please share this video!
Topics discussed today;
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gioacch...
commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... (collection of Altobelli’s photographs with labels)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture... - Zábava
I have been living in Rome for 67 years, now, and in looking at these photographs and observing how the ancient and more modern monuments were scattered through the city, through the space that was inhabited by the people, I have started to think how deeply melancholic and nostalgic this city can be, despite the magnificent appearance. Because It constantly makes you think of bygone times
Thank you for sharing your insights of Italy.
Sure, here is the information about the Italian invasion of Libya in short:
* Italy invaded Libya in 1911 for economic and strategic reasons.
* The war lasted for two years and resulted in the deaths of about 80,000 to 100,000 Libyans and 5,000 Italians.
* The Italians used brutal methods to suppress the Libyan resistance, including aerial bombardment, concentration camps, and public executions.
* The war left a legacy of bitterness and resentment that continues to this day.
Here are some key points:
* The Italian invasion of Libya was a major turning point in Italian history.
* The war marked the beginning of Italy's colonial rule in Libya, which lasted until 1943.
* The war also left a legacy of bitterness and resentment that continues to this day.
We will take revenge from you Italy one day. Keep It in mind. You treated very dirt way immigrants and some weeks ago more than 700 people were killed in a way of Italy. Your country don't help them
@@man08839Muslims are known for holding grudges forever
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@@man08839 Nobody cares dude. Get a life.
Living in Rome at the time without tourist globalization, I think it was incredible to be able to enjoy the attractions all to yourself.
I don't know how to thank you enough. These images are moving...I feel something. I could almost cry, what I feel is a sense of loss...we've lost so much. And the lies...we've been lied to about *everything.* Thanks to you others who are dedicated to finding answers, the truth is emerging and the lies are being exposed. Thank you, so very much 🌹
Me, too, Miapdx503! I hate that they lied to us. _About everything,_ apparently! It's like this HUGE betrayal somehow. My family says, "What do you care?" and I say, "Why _don't_ you???" Everyone just shrugs. _But I feel cheated._ (And kinda' stupid and gullible too!)
That’s exactly how I feel,it must of been a beautiful time to be alive ❤
When these photographs were taken, the sounds of Rome, the horses, the wind and the birds in the trees was closer to the atmosphere Caesar was accustomed to. In the 1870's the car was not invented yet. So the ancient world, Unbeknownst to the 19th century person, was still clinging in there. So the photo's may well be very similar to our time but the atmosphere, for the guy walking about the place in the 1870's was closer to that of ancient Rome than it is to our loud, mechanical and noisy 21st Century.
As Italian from Venice , I am astonished by This unknown serial of pictures. Thanks to You for the discovery of Mr.Altobelli Memories . It's a truly time journey
Majestic 👍🏼🤙🏼
The quality of these photographs is outstanding, very well composed and many are very sharp, a testament to the quality of the cameras, the lenses and of course, the photographers.
These pictures are incredible. It is so interesting to see pictures of the Tiber river before the walls were built in the late 1800s to prevent the constant flooding of the city
The shades of grays captured the city Rome especially the vestiges of the Roman architecture with a sense of nostalgia. Fortunately most of these archeological sites have been saved and restored. The beautiful Roma, Italia 🇮🇹
You obviously didn't watch the whole video. There is a pyramid with it looks like a gold apex at the tip. What is this?
@@marcosgomez8618pyramid of caius cestius
@@marcosgomez8618yeah that’s still there’s it’s someone’s grave from ancient times.
That's blows my mind.
Thanks so much for the cool tour, Jarid! Very interesting. Some pictures were missing descriptions, and being the curious sort, I did some looking online. I thought I'd pass along this info to anyone also interested. (For the sites I could identify, that is.)
1:01 - Ruins of the Roman Forum, ancient marketplace and plaza.
5:32 - Arcus Argentariorum, "Arch of the Moneychangers".
6:17 - Temple of Minerva Medica. A nymphaeum (a monument consecrated to the nymphs).
6:33 - Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine.
6:54 - Forum of Emperor Nerva, "Le Colonnacce" (the colonnade).
7:26 - Inside the Roman Colliseum. (I think everyone figured that out, though. lol!)
7:53 - Papal Basilica of Saint Lawrence outside the Walls.
8:14 - Rome City Hall.
8:36 - Trajan's Forum.
9:17 - "Easter Mass at St. Peter's Square, Rome, presided by Pope Pius IX."
9:47 - "The Porta Maggiore ("Larger Gate"), or Porta Prenestina, is one of the eastern gates in the ancient but well-preserved 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome."
10:26 - "Porta San Giovanni is a gate in the Aurelian Wall of Rome, Italy, named after the nearby Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran."
11:00 and 20:35 - Temple of Antoninus and Faustina. According to Wikipedia, originally constructed as a temple to Antoninus Pius and his wife Faustina, converted to a Christian church in the middle ages.
11:19 - Pope Pius IX inaugurates the Magliana railway bridge.
17:24 - Probably the Temple of Hercules Victor. Although this picture is labeled as the Temple of Vesta, according to Wikipedia, the temple of Vesta was demolished in 1549 and its stone used to build churches and papal palaces. In Wikipedia, this structure looks most likely to be the Temple of Hercules Victor. (I could be wrong, though.)
Благодаря за поясненията. От BG
Thank you.
You're not wrong about the last one :)
This temple is the most ancient still standing roman building.
You can get an idea of its age by noticing how the circular sloped roof sits right on top of the columns with no stone lintel used in many other temples. This means that the original lintel was made of timber and is lost in time due to its perishability. The most ancient roman buildings are documented using timber lintels to host the roofs.
You are a great, "te sei 'n granne" in roman 😊😊
Bless you ❤
Благодаря за възможността да видя тези прекрасни снимки, представящи ни Рим преди повече от век и половина. Те са безценно богатство. Поздрави от България.
Thank you for compiling this & thanks to Mr Altobelli for taking these pictures! Imagine doing something that 1 1/2 centuries later people still appreciate!!🤩
Wow I’m looking at ancient Ancient Rome 😊
the pyramid structures seen in some photographs were a surprise ...
Yeah I thought the same thing. At 10:31 the pyramid is CRAZY!
I am awestruck by the beautiful structures shown in these images! Thank you for posting them❤
Congrats to you Jarid!
I have been watching your videos from the beginning and never have much of a commenter
The two reasons why I’m writing this today is, I’m inspired by you pushing through and seeing what you have done and getting rewarded for your efforts with hitting 80k
The second reason is, those pictures are just incredible, great job in research
The colosseum night picture really stands out and the heights of the pillars are incredible!
This video, really solidified the idea that something happened, it seems when we are in the USA and see videos of the monstrous build and dirt roads, don’t make any sense, but seeing Rome still in ruins and the people on horseback seems to hit home even stronger that there’s no way we built this. Also Romanesque architecture is worldwide doesn’t make sense either
Thanks and congrats 🎉
Thank you Jarid as always for filling the gaps in our history knowledge. You always come up with something interesting. God bless.
This is the type of content CZcams was made for. Thank you!
Thank you for such an amazing job and make me dream a little bit. I am from Rome, crazy for my city. Some of those pictures are really unbelievable. That big round clock on the facade of Castel Sant'Angelo (or former Mausoleum of Hadrian) is something that only very old Romans could watch in person when they were young children.
At 5:38 you have the Arch of the Argentari (people who worked with silver and similar metals), incredibly opened. I have always seen that passage closed in my life. At the right, the iron fence you can spot is the portico of San Giorgio al Velabro church, one of my favorite church in Rome for multiple reasons and the lowest church (in terms of altitude) in all the city. Some of the fountains you can see have been moved to other part of the city, while others have just been removed. You can see the main San Lorenzo cathedral before the bombing of the II World War. At 10:40, that piece of Roman walls between Piramide Cestia and Porta San Paolo is no longer there, it was bombed during the war, incredibly missing the two monuments at sides. So now there is a car passage to go through. The Arch of Druso (so called, because the real Arch of Druso was built a bit further out on the Appia street, but nobody has never seen it - that one in the picture was just a part of the Antoninian acqueduct which brought water to the Caracalla Baths) at 11:55 was not buried since there has always been a street there (old via Appia, towards Capua city) since the Republic time which passed exactly under it. Of course that old via Appia is still there, I use it almost every week, and remained in use all the time. At 13:00 in front of Colosseum you can see the old Meta Sudans (sweating stone in Latin) fountain shaped as a big round stone, a very old one. Unfortunately it was finally demolished during Fascism times. The garden you can see behing the Piramide Cestia al 14:10 is the English cemetery (or not Catholic cemetery, much correctly), a lovely place to visit now. It is very likely, but just a speculation from me, that one of those men you can see close to archeological sites in the Roman Forum was the famous Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani, one of the fathers of archeology who has also worked during the transition between the Papal State and Rome as part of the new Italian State. I really suggest to read one of his masterpiece, The Destruction of Ancient Rome, written 120 years ago but still counting. The round temple you can see at 17:25, behind the fountain, it is not the Temple of Vesta. That was believed since few decades ago, because of its round shape. The Temple of Vesta in now precisely located inside the old Roman Forum, which is also very logical bcause of the meaning it used to have, they discovered its substructures. The round Temple you can see there is the Temple of Ercole Vincitore (Hercules the Winner) who was the patron of horse jokey in the race inside Circus Maximus, which is, in fact, located right behind the camera standpoint. That Temple is also the oldest marble temple stll raised nowadays, although the roof you can see was rebuilt in the Middle Ages. That pillars at 20:35 are a portion of the big Portico di Ottavia (Ottavia's Porch), and the small church behind is Sant'Angelo in Peschiera, called in this way because in that area there was the first and oldest fish market of Rome ("Pescheria" means fish shop), and in fact is located very close to the river for trading and logistics purpose. That fish market, which is now inside the Jewish quarter, lasted and worked for more than two thousands of years. But those pillars were never buried, as written, only the very lower part of them - they always remained at light. Thank you again, mate.
Thanks for pulling this together. Rome feels like a huge trove of buried history just waiting for explorers in this circle to start exploring. The stories they fabricate...
While on a tour, they claim that the pantheon was originally supposed to be twice the size that it is, but the original larger columns capsized the transport barges in route from Egypt. Can you just imagine an unreinforced concrete dome twice that size?!?!
43metres or 142ft wide.
22. or 71 ft height.
Imagine twice that👀
Moronalierus was the obvious end result of a mass population of screen starers who are easily swayed and manipulated with the wind. No real internal moral compass to speak of. Most await buzzwords and trigger phrases from their "leaders" to enact their fake moral superiority in order to gain a sense of meaning. Minds are quickly being degenerated, social media screen starers disconnected from reality with nothing real going on internally cling to political causes and slogans. the virus is their wet dream and meaning making apparatus, reality in its own twisted projection of their mind finally makes sense and they have their "cause of a generation..that they "lived through" and "overcame".
Children needing a nipple to suck on to make them safe from the "boogeyman". dissenters and halfway free thinkers must be destroyed as they are reminders of the empty shell or husk of a "human" that now operates in the world simply by mechanics- mechanical action after mechanical action all the while running on stress chemicals swearing to God or whoever that they are in the "right", and will save the world. Never once looking inward to wonder if maybe they are being had or might have it totally backwards. Total Indoctrination.
The root of all evil is reproduction. If no more fresh food(children) is brought into this 'heaven' and given over to the beast, the beast would starve to death. Don't bring into this reality more future: communists, satanists, terrorists prancing around in the idiotbox/telievision in suits/ties and white coats and other childish/ridiculous uniforms, torturers, mercenaries, hitmen/hitwomen, bolsheviks, leninists, stalinists, maoists, nazis, marxists, BLMs, antifas etc.etc.(i.e. the ‘nice’ people of society). No, you will not be able to influence your children, the beast is indoctrinating/brainwashing them 24/7/365. Your 5 minutes per day non-sensical useless interaction with them will not counteract the beast's 24/7/365 influence.
@@jamessones4044 Speaking of the columns, I think they were referring to the height of the pediment, which I am sure is lower than the original design for the same reason you said. However, I think the same type of dome could not have been so double the size. But the original height of the Pantheon was quite impressive, but unfortunately the ground level now reaches the base of the columns.
Sure, here is the information about the Italian invasion of Libya in short:
* Italy invaded Libya in 1911 for economic and strategic reasons.
* The war lasted for two years and resulted in the deaths of about 80,000 to 100,000 Libyans and 5,000 Italians.
* The Italians used brutal methods to suppress the Libyan resistance, including aerial bombardment, concentration camps, and public executions.
* The war left a legacy of bitterness and resentment that continues to this day.
Here are some key points:
* The Italian invasion of Libya was a major turning point in Italian history.
* The war marked the beginning of Italy's colonial rule in Libya, which lasted until 1943.
* The war also left a legacy of bitterness and resentment that continues to this day.
We will take revenge from you Italy one day. Keep It in mind. You treated very dirt way immigrants and some weeks ago more than 700 people were killed in a way of Italy. Your country don't help them
You're awesome Jarid. I use to love history as a kid and you help bring back those memories.
First thing I noticed were clocks featuring 'IIII' instead of 'IV' for the number four! Also, a few with vanilla skies....
you know some russian soviet clocks was with the same IIII instead of IV
search images "советский будильник с римскими цифрами"
Very interesting Jarid. Probably you know but there are some interesting engravings done in the mid 18th Century (around 1750) very accurately done, that show the Ancient Roman ruins in great detail with a lot of overgrown vegetation on them. The artist is called Piranesi.
These accurate engraving were probably done with a "Camera Obscura" the earliest camera that the artist would sketch the projected image that would come into a dark room or large box thru a small hole (aperture) were the only light came in, projecting an image. The artist would be able to make a very accurate true life sketch.
All these images were 'Wet Plate Collodion " (Daguerreotype, Tintype were on silver plates; Ambrotype was on glass that meant it was a negative you could print from. Dry Plate was invented in 1871). Wet Plate meant the photographer had to prepare his plate emulsion (salted collodion) and silver nitrate (protecting from light), then exposing the plate in camera by taking the lens cap off and mentally timing the exposure, re-capping and removing the plate and developing it before it started to dry. That's why you'll notice differences in details, as some are higher exposed and others lower. Where there any people, they needed to pose still. From CANADA
There would be growth over a period of time...
@@RolandMueller-xu8rv
I’ve read about this. Very interesting. There’s also evidence of very early photo ‘editing.’
I was stationed in Italy while in the Military. What a Beautiful place and all that Culture. So sad that most of these treasures were lost and can never be replaced. In the middle east especially the destruction was almost complete
Sure, here is the information about the Italian invasion of Libya in short:
* Italy invaded Libya in 1911 for economic and strategic reasons.
* The war lasted for two years and resulted in the deaths of about 80,000 to 100,000 Libyans and 5,000 Italians.
* The Italians used brutal methods to suppress the Libyan resistance, including aerial bombardment, concentration camps, and public executions.
* The war left a legacy of bitterness and resentment that continues to this day.
Here are some key points:
* The Italian invasion of Libya was a major turning point in Italian history.
* The war marked the beginning of Italy's colonial rule in Libya, which lasted until 1943.
* The war also left a legacy of bitterness and resentment that continues to this day.
We will take revenge from you Italy one day. Keep It in mind. You treated very dirt way immigrants and some weeks ago more than 700 people were killed in a way of Italy. Your country don't help them.
What? Most of those monuments are still here!
@@paolagermani9650 one day they will not
@@man08839 why exactly? And when should it happen?
@@paolagermani9650 read my above comment
It would be fun to compare these Roman buildings with ones in Europe and America - I get this feeling they were all built at the same time
There are buildings in every single country that are like these. Even on small Asian islands. It was a world wide civilization.
Ty for your part in keeping the true past out there. While they're trying to erase everyday
👋Hi there Jarid,
I'm a new subscriber here, I have to say WOW! As soon as I found your channel & started watching your videos, I was seriously hooked. My family are equally hooked.
Your content is just amazing, so interesting, so informative/educative, so wonderful & so evocative & moving. I love listening to your narrative & always find it so compelling & interesting.
This one regarding amazing & beautiful Rome, is of no exception. A city so full of incredible architecture, such rich & diverse history & such wonderful & vibrant culture.
I love the music that you play throughout your videos. Just wonderful & so evocative, which adds warmth/depth & really "adds" to your video style & narrative.
For me, as someone with some Italian/Roman ancestry, I feel that I'm potentially looking into the faces of some of my early ancestors & however crazy this may sound, it may well be true. And this also applies, to anyone with known Italian/Roman ancestry.
The history is so amazing & I think the architecture back then, sure beats todays buildings by & large.
It's interesting to note, that unlike many global cities, Rome has managed to maintain it's historical architecture, for the most part & when you walk around, it really is just like stepping back in time.
It's akin to taking a stroll through your favourite candy store. There's so much on offer & there are always new & wonderful surprises in store around every corner.
It's great that this city has remained widely untouched & how wonderful for todays generation of Italians & global citizens, otherwise such history & beauty would never have been visually witnessed & appreciated.
I really appreciate your interest in history, your keen historical eye & I wish to say Thank you, for your research/hard work & for bringing us such wonderful & interesting content.
Regards from Tasmania, Australia.
What treasures ! Thank you for sharing them ! 🧡🙏🏻
Hey Jomama. You're so correct. It made me realize that I have no photographs of the house and neighborhood I grew up in San Antonio Texas. My whole neighborhood was razed in 1972 under the old Urban Renewal Program. Ultimate insult replaced by warehouses. I'm an old geezer now and many times I reminisce about my childhood home and neighborhood and have no photographs. So sad.
Yes, we fail to capture the ordinary. Then it's gone.
何故だ😮こんなにも綺麗に未だ残っているのは？不思議だなあ！😮
This tour was insane loved it 💚
The wonderful incongruity of large colomns and archways, with little horse drawn carriages and tiny people on dirt roads. Stunning presentation, as usual~ lovely
The photo of clouds behind the coliseum is stunning... incredible view back in time
Incredibly interesting selection of early photographs. Thank you for sharing these.
So you are telling me with this photos, a city like Rome in 1800's, is just a ruin city full of dirt and ruins? Something about our history is wrong!
Take a look to the first photos ever taken of India. Beside 700 years of muslim colonialism it was a beautifull place, much more clean than Rome. Then british came, and India became the dirty place we all know.
While India, Bhārata, produces art, music, architecture and the most deep culture of the world, in Italia there were still men with clubs who communicated with gestures.
Impressive, very impressive. Never knew till now that some of these landmarks and monuments were below ground. I am italian, been to Italy many times, my mother was born there. How different it was compared to now. It's a highly populated city, airports and high volume tourism. Thank you for sharing.these magnificent fotos , it meant a lot to me. Your little pet lizard is so cute 😍. Take good care of him !🤗🤗🤗
Jarid Boosters. I am not sure if I ever posted on any of your videos but will now. I really really enjoy ALL of your research and finding these great photos and sharing them ♥️ The history and imagining getting to take some of the first photos and recording history so they could be shared with the world. I remember being in fourth grade and our teacher had a picture (from life magazine maybe?) Of the Sphinx. One of the first taken I supposed because it was still very covered with sand and men and a few camels way high up on the sand. I knew it was a picture of the Sphinx of course but I was fascinated by it. I like your sharing these photos and I love b&w pictures. My great grandfather was a photographer around or before the early 1900s he was from South America. I never met him or saw many of his photos but I really enjoy seeing these. My great grand father would also be one of these early photographers. So cool.
Thank you so much.
The sphinx, by its proportions is a lion. Also aligned to the Leo constellation in the firmament.
good work, it is helping in preserving earliest phographs of eternal city of Rome by sharing them with the world
Very nice! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for share those precious historic photos. It shows those great civilizations were there previously and destroyed or abandoned and then some Rich and poor people start to move there once they discovered them and start to rebuild those historic cities.
I would love to see current pictures taken now at the same angles so you could compare what has changed. I really enjoyed being there and it was amazing to see the coliseum with the floor in place.
Most of those monuments have not changed at all
I don't believe that's the "floor" of the coliseum, rather the ground that had buried it and was yet to be excavated.
The more such photographs I see the more convinced I am that the city and cities like it were founded as in found-dead and simply settled.
Thank you so much for sharing😁💓🙏🏻🌺🌿
Thank you Jarid. Some commentary on each or most photos would have been priceless.
I am from Rome, i stay in Rome ... this time travel has been fantastic.
Thanks
I have just returned from my third visit to Rome, my absolute favorite city in the world. This video of the photographs is quite remarkable, thank you for posting.
Words cannot express the beauty.
Beautiful picture ! Never seen them with a beautiful image of the kind !! ❤
The truly most amazing photo i've ever saw was that of the colosseum, it was taken from above but at a slight angle at a certain time of the day when the Sun cast light shadows, it becomes a realistic looking eye and i do mean realistic, thats its true hidden secret. I was searching Images for ancient monuments about 15 years ago, as i scrolled down i saw a picture of an eye amongst ancient monuments i thought it was odd having that picture, so i looked closer and it was the colosseum. Who really built it and why can its real purpose only be seen from above.
At what time do you reference?
@@dwaynedalton7610 not the time of the photos. Rome rose to become a fractured, backwards society, as intended.
@Mr.Grimsdale
@@dwaynedalton7610 Thats a very difficult question to answer but i would guess maybe 1 hour after sunrise, i don't know what what day or month of the year it was so can't give an accurate time.
Some sort of water equilibrium and delivery system? That was the conduit and energy itself when things ran correctly for a thousand years. Wars, torture, famine, plagues, cruelty, ignorance, Darkness, is the crap we've been fed. Christians were not fed to Lions... "Renaissance" means "Reign of the Saints" No one has ever dug up a corpse from underneath the Colosseum. "Rome wasn't built in a day, neither was Syracuse." Moe Howard
Amazing collection Brilliant work as always. Much respect, from Australia...
Your delves just get better and better Jarid. Grateful for you and your work. Keep fighting the good fight.
Always great videos man, its so difficult to get old photo's of anything like town halls being constructed from start to finish, , if there is photos it shows its being constructed over/on/added, never from nothing to
Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed it all.
It will be Spectacular to look up at this building's sites nowadays and then make a before and after video...Great work; Thank You for your research
Un trozo de historia preservado para siempre... Me encantan estos testimonios fotográficos!!!!! 👍
fascinating. Thanks for sharing
No hay palabras para mensurar la importancia de este documental
Extraordinario !! Nos emociona, nos sumerge en el pasado, nos muestra los cambios. GRACIAS
Really needs a then and now photo version. The missing structures and the now with what happened. Story of what is/was seen has a greater impact.
No doubt that would be cool
Good idea. I guess another 150 years and most of the buildings would be largely gone if not for intensive preservation activities. No building lasts longer than 400-500 years before it completely crumbles. See the Egyptian pyramids which were erected in the 13th/14th century or later. They only still exist because they are so huge and solid.
@@THOUGHTCRIME_No1 13th 14th century B.C.
@@THOUGHTCRIME_No1 Yeah.. that's not really true. Ask the Normans. Westminster Abbey is about 750 years old and doing just fine.
@@nicknewman7848 By no means is this building that old. Maybe it was build in the 18th century, but I would rather estimate that it was constructed in the 19th century. It exhibits some resemblence to the dome of Cologne which was erected from 1826-1839 for the most part.
Thanks man! It's fun to go back in time, to look at images from way back in time. I've got to go to Rome!
I was most interested in seeing that early shot of the colosseum exterior with the meta sudans still intact, Pete Hutley, Newcastle, Australia.
The fountain should be rebuilt with water sweating out of it.
I agree. Don’t know why they’ve never done it.
Thank you for posting these exquisite photographs! I wonder if those in the pictures knew what a grand place they were in, at least the photographer knew! I am so fascinated by Roman architecture and history, I loved this video.😊
Me too !!!
Thank you Jarid , My great Grandpas and Grandmas are from Italy and Sicily so they have been all over this area , it sure looks Mud flooded to me , Looks like it was under Muddy Water for quite awhile and had things built for 12 to 18 foot folks . I would have been all over it with a shovel looking for Loot , and Marveling at the Architecture :) QC
Wow!! I just took my first trip to Rome 10 months ago and was able to visit MANY of these places in these pictures and to see how they looked 150 years ago as compared to now is just incredible. I found Rome to be fascinating. St. Peter's Basilica is the most AWE INSPIRING structure I've ever walked into in my life. My entire 6 days there walking, touring, sight seeing, just taking in the history and architecture.... WOW! Great pics and video!
The city looks so different nowadays because 150 years ago many of the buildings were still fairly new or even erected shortly beforehand. The Pantheon for example was originally a Christian Church, built only a few centuries ago.
@@THOUGHTCRIME_No1That is absolutely rubbish. You should go and study a bit.
What is rubbish and why and on which evidence would this be based?
@@THOUGHTCRIME_No1 Check your facts about the Pantheon and some other things I've read you wrote. I won't be educating anyone.
@@THOUGHTCRIME_No1The Pantheon was originally a Roman temple and is 2000 years old.
excellant! it would be awesome to see pictures of the same places now, from the same angle.
I am 70 years old, a born and bred Londoner, in April i went to Rome for the very first time, and i loved it, but i must admit to becoming emotional visiting these places that i had heard about, for most of my life. These pictures are wonderful.
I hope you will love Italy and Rome and, please, no Cappuccino after 12 pm :D
@@giangra92
This was our first visit to Italy and Roma, and we did love it, we went for four days, and one of them we spent in Pompeii, both places were equally beautiful, we took the Train from Roma to Napoli, a lovely fast Train, and then another, local, train to Pompeii.
The countryside we travelled through was beautiful too, but as an old boy, money is tight, but i will definitely be trying to save enough to go back to to Roma and Pompeii.
Is it silly to say i felt so at home?, because i did. I just wish i were a young man again, i would spend so much time in Italy.
But i am sorry to disappoint you, we shamefully did have Cappuccino after Mid-day, i will try not to make the same mistake again, in Bella Italia.
Beautifil pictures! Thanks.
Thanks for the video!
13:03 photo showing clouds & fullmoon,
Beautiful
How strange to have been living in Rome in the 1800s, with these ancient and superior structures all around your simple one-storey huts and houses. The locals even lacking the resources to preserve such towering architecture. They must have looked on with humbling bemusement.
Superb video and images!
This is simply amazing. Thank you very, very much.
FANTASTIC! GREAT COLLECTION THANKYOU
Amazing photo set! After visiting Rome a few years ago, we often take it for granted that the city was as "built up" then as it is now. Of course, that certainly isn't the case, as these photos show. Very interesting contrast between then and now.
How wonderful! Thank you so much...
These were already ancient ruins in 1840 going back over a thousand years. The nature and scope of the buildings and their design was so far ahead of the rest of the world. Modern cities didn’t catch up to the sophistication of early Roman construction techniques until the turn of the century. Imagine that in 1840 American Indians were still living as nomads out of Teepees. These fabulous buildings were ruins at that same time. They had aquaducts to bring fresh water into the city and complex sewer systems along with water piped into homes. Also giant sports complexes and thousands of miles of paved roads. Amazing.
1700 years at least. Anyway buildings like those were in the whole empire, from Britain to North Africa, from Spain to Syria
The whole city looks, like it was slowly submerged, layed under water some time, and recurfaced.
So cool even to witness these photographs of classical monuments taken in an industrial era for us to discover online in contemporary style. Like humanity reflecting back on its achievements utilizing the new gadgets it has made for itself
I like the history of times that were reset and trying to comprehend where all the knowledge of the skill to build such cities of artwork to be proud of there is a lot to be learned yet of all our past that just gets pushed a side , I am buying a place in Italy for retirement and to explore its beauty and a time that we should all learn from. be safe and liked the video
Thank you for these pictures.Greetings from Rome
Wow amazing pictures,
Fantastic picture fabulous place powerful 💪😎🤙
At 10:48 the pyramid picture did anyone else notice the top of it. It has to made of a different material for the vines not to grow on it. Maybe a quartz crystal?
Wow, what a amazing pictures.
Absolutely fascinating✨
Thanks for sharing!!!
Im from Rome and ive never seen these pictures of my city!! ❤❤ Thank you my friend!
I wish that the name of every building, fountain, arch etc. photgraphed in this amazing video, had been written above the photo, just to Google the present day image. Also placing a photo of how everything appears today would have been fantastic. A Rome (1841 - 1871) which still had a rural aspect about it. Rather touching photos...vegetable plots, donkeys and carts near the monuments - AND no car pollution.
A Time and a place where Beauty was everywhere. We can't even start to comprehend what it must have been to live there.
Beauty? Dirt..childlabour..unsanitary houses...poverty...disrepair and early death...u wouldn't last a day..most people had a terrible life then
Very true.
being an Italian I walked through Rome and other places in Italy... by seeing this pictures i realize today how often I may be so accustomed to ancient ruins and not notice the various "minor" remaining that surround me... this picture gave me a deeper impression on some of the things I saw in person in this modern and caotic world
The photos are exceptional, the video is well made.
Grazie per questo video 🤩
Splendide foto, grazie!
VERY NICE!!!!!! THANKS KEEP THE GOOD WORK GOING
These are really amazing. They need to be seen more.
Seeing the streetlight by the arch around the 19-20 min mark really raises eyebrows, like theres no way they were building structures like that and were just using candles and fire for lighting
I'd love to see these colourised 👌🏻 I used to live in Rome 😍
How beautiful. Shows how time was so very slow. A pity no photos of the area around Saint Peter’s that was demolished but the picture of piazza San Pietro with the horse carts parked… brilliant … imagine the smell though. Thank you, living in Rime I’ll go compare pictures with today. Ciao
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Amazing images.🏛️👀
Modern looking clocks in two of the photos - 3:02 and 3:59.
I wonder why that is?
Wow, that's so modern. Even I have those myself at my modern house, I even wear them on my arm, that's the most modern thing I've ever seen actually
a confrontation with giovanni battista piranesi´s works would be even more stunning!