Tag: beauty in nature

The Flowering of Castelluccio – An Impressionist Masterpiece

.Reading time 9 minutes.

By Francesca Lungarotti If the impressionist master of the variations of light in the open air, Claude Monet, had visited the Plateau of Castelluccio di Norcia in Umbria, Italy he would not have hesitated to paint them. The striking natural beauty of this place features a mix of time, patience and unpredictability in the natural spectacle […]

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UIG’s Aerial Photography Collection

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Gaspard-Felix Tournachon is widely believed to be the first producer of aerial photography.  Tournachon, a balloonist, took images mainly of Paris, France in the late 1850’s.  The earliest surviving aerial photograph, however, was one created in 1860.  James Wallace Black and Samuel Archer King’s aerial photograph was titled “Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It”. […]

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