Casa di Cola di Rienzi
Bound volume
Unidentified
Maker
Casa di Cola di Rienzi
From the album Rome to Pompeii
ca. 1880
Albumen silver print
Image: 7 7/8 × 10 1/8 in. (20 × 25.7 cm)
Mount: 10 11/16 × 13 7/8 in. (27.2 × 35.3 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Phil Porter
Inscriptions Printed in image, BL: 71. Casa di Cola di Rienzi
Inscribed in black ink on mount, B: B. 246. \ House of Crescentius or Casa di Rienzi or di Pilato as it is commonly called, constructed of brick with a \ singular admixture of antique fragments. On the side a long inscription records that "this lofty house \ was erected by Nicholas, son of Crescens not from motives of ambition but as a reminiscence of \ the ancient glory of Rome. The Crescentii were the most powerful noble family in Rome at the \ close of the 10th cent. but the house, the oldest existing specimen of medieval domestic architecture \ is not earlier than the 11th or 12th cent.
Inscribed in black ink on mount, B: B. 246. \ House of Crescentius or Casa di Rienzi or di Pilato as it is commonly called, constructed of brick with a \ singular admixture of antique fragments. On the side a long inscription records that "this lofty house \ was erected by Nicholas, son of Crescens not from motives of ambition but as a reminiscence of \ the ancient glory of Rome. The Crescentii were the most powerful noble family in Rome at the \ close of the 10th cent. but the house, the oldest existing specimen of medieval domestic architecture \ is not earlier than the 11th or 12th cent.
