12-11-2009, 11:34 AM
Quote:Lino Rossi was apparently a pathologist based in Milan and an amateur enthusiast in Roman studies. (That doesn't make him a bad person! :wink: ) His book was groundbreaking because it was the first publication of photos of the spiral frieze from the ground, the viewpoint of the ordinary Roman in the street
Not quite, since the ordinary Roman did not have the benefit of a telephoto lens. His images might have been better if the postulated library balcony (however high it might have been) still existed, but it doesn't, so they weren't!
Quote:-- however, the images are poor, and everyone goes back to the Cichorius plates for the detail.
Not everybody, surely - some of us prefer Lehmann-Hartleben. Incidentally, Cichorius' personally annotated copy of his work is in private possession (the bookseller apparently didn't realise quite what he had)... but not that of The Good Dr Coulston (much to his chagrin).
For some reason I was always under the impression that Rossi was a dentist (don't ask me why, I have no idea) but he clearly had a distinguished career beyond long-lens photography of the TC.
Mike Bishop
