Robert Rive
Robert Julius Rive was a Prussian-born photographer that opened his studio in Naples around the 1850s. After several years working in this country he changed his name to Roberto Rive. Rive conducted a series of systematic photographic campaigns around Italy.
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- Name
- Robert Julius Rive
- Born
- 27 March 1817
- Birthplace
- Wrocław, Prussia
- Died
- 30 March 1868
- Place of death
- Torre del Greco, Naples, Kingdom of Italy
- Occupation
- Photographer
- Nationality
- France · Kingdom of Italy
- Languages
- French · Italian
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Robert Julius Rive was a Prussian-born photographer that opened his studio in Naples around the 1850s. After several years working in this country he changed his name to Roberto Rive. Rive conducted a series of systematic photographic campaigns around Italy.
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Robert Rive (1817–1868) was a photographer, of French and Italian nationality. The photographer was born in Wrocław and died in Torre del Greco.
Languages used include French and Italian. Works are held at Museo del Prado, Photography Collection and Victoria and Albert Museum.
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The main collections of his work are the photos from Pompei and Rome in the 1860s and 1870s. After his death in 1868, his brother Julius Otto took over the studio until 1888.
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Richard Robert Rive (1864–1947), mayor of Halle [now Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany].
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• Name — Robert Julius Rive • Other Names — Roberto Rive • Born — 27 March 1817 • Birthplace — Wrocław, Prussia • Died — 30 March 1868 • Place of death — Torre del Greco, Naples, Kingdom of Italy • Occupation — Photographer
Gallery
Gallery
• Illustration — Stereo card of the Amphitheatre in Pompeii, 1865 • Illustration — Enfants nus à Naples, 1870. • Illustration — Palace of the emperors. Caligula's bridge, before 1889
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• J. Paul Getty Museum • Musée d'Orsay • Museo di Roma
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1817
Robert Rive born at Wrocław.
1868
Robert Rive died at Torre del Greco.
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Wrocław.
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Torre del Greco.
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Photography
• Illustration — Pezzi di pane, Museo di Napoli • Illustration — Pezzi di pane, Museo di Napoli (verso, showing signature) Robert Rive worked as a topographical and portrait photographer from the beginning of the 1860s until 1889 in Naples. In 1867, he took part at the Exposition Universelle of Paris. His studio produced views and stereographs of many Italian cities. He took photographs of monuments of Naples, Pompei, Sorrento, Capri, Amalfi and monuments of Sicily. He also took photographs of cities such as Florence, Pisa, Siena, Rome and Genoa. He held studios in Naples, Palazzo Serracapriola, Palazzo Lieti. "Giorgio Sommer and Robert Rive began a systematic census of the monuments and daily life, in an amazing collection that provided information on Campania and Sicily" He also patented a photosensitive paper used in Southern Italy.
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- 1.Robert Rive. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
- 2.Robert Julius Rive (Breslavia, 1817 - Napoli, 1868). Libreria Antiquaria Gonnelli - Casa d'Aste - Gonnelli Casa d'Aste.
- 3.Fede, Laura Di. A look from outside: Foreign photographers in Palermo between the 19th and the 20th century. La rivista di Engramma 179 • Borders Cuts Images. 122. 2021-01-01.
- 4.J. Paul Getty Museum
- 5.Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Photography by John Hannavy
- 6.From Senato della Repubblica
- 7.http://www.museodiroma.comune.roma.it/PalazzoBraschi
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