Wilhelm von Gloeden

Pietro on the Terrace at Posillipo, 1890

"Pietro on the terrace at Posillipo", c. 1890. Public domain.

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Introduction

The work "Pietro on the Terrace at Posillipo", created around 1890 by the German photographer Wilhelm von Gloeden, represents one of the absolute pinnacles of late 19th-century Pictorialist aesthetics. Through a masterful use of the photographic medium, Gloeden transforms a working-class Neapolitan youth into a timeless icon, a mythological apparition re-emerging from the ruins of classical antiquity.

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Wilhelm von Gloeden

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Wilhelm von Gloeden

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