The First Photographs Ever Taken in Rome, Italy (1841-1871) Gioacchino Altobelli & The Old World

Howdy y'all, welcome back. Thank you for being here and thank you for helping the channel hit 80,000 subscribers. To celebrate, today we are going to be looking through an absolutely astounding collection of never before seen images of Rome, Italy. The very first ever taken images of Rome, Italy. We will see ancient relics and the history which still plays a part in the current narrative that many people use today. These photographs are considered to be the first ever photographs of ancient Rome as well as some of the earliest photographs ever taken in Italy. These images throughout the video are mostly attributed to Italian Giacino Altobelli, born in 1814. In 1830, at the age of 16, Altobelli moved to Rome where he began his pursuit of the art. When the new technology of photography finally arrived to Italy in the mid to late 1830s, Altobelli dedicated the rest of his career to perfecting and photographing some of the most ancient and most infamous sites throughout Rome, being the first man to take quality photographs of almost every major historical site around the city. Those are the images we will look at today. From 1841 through 1871, Altobelli along with a team of other photographers including Richard Jones took it upon themselves to document the most famous and ancient city of Rome as completely as possible. For the remainder of this video, we are going to be looking at these oldest photographs of Rome taken by Altobelli and Jones and other photographers. This compilation will show you many ancient sites across the city of Rome, some you may recognize right away while others may appear more obscure. Some of them may not be standing today. I tried to provide details on the more substantial images within the video and I will also leave links to multiple quality collections of these images down below. Again, as we view these photographs, remember each one is at least 150 years old, with the most recent photographs in this compilation dating to roughly 1870. This is when Altobelli documented Rome the day after the conquest of that same year. What is so fascinating about the 1870 so-called conquest of Rome is that it upset the power vacuum in the region. It diminished the papal strength and it began a process that would eventually lead to the unification and the Kingdom of Italy. All of these regions of Rome are documented, mostly for the first time ever, on photograph in this video. So hopefully you can see the value of these images. I hope they're eye-opening and as breathtaking to you as they were to me. Please like, share, and subscribe to my channel if you're not already, and I look forward to hearing what you have to say in our discussion of ancient Rome in the comment section down below. As always, I thank you so much for being here, and enjoy the rest of these images.