Ferdinando Ongania

Ongania, Ferdinando (Italian photographer and publisher, 1842-1911)

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Imprimeur, éditeur et libraire à Venise, assistant puis (en 1871) successeur de Hermann Frederich Münster, place Saint-Marc. - Auteur de travaux historiques et bibliographiques.

Italian publisher (and bookseller). He was first an employee and later the manager of the Münster bookshop in the Piazza San Marco, Venice. From 1877 he was involved in an extraordinary series of 43 publications about Venetian art history, which made liberal use of photography. In these works he employed, and was among the very first to do so in Italy, the new heliotype technique (a variation of collotype see PHOTOGRAPHY, §I). His most important work is the monumental La Basilica di San Marco in Venezia (Venice, 1877–88). (Paolo Costantini. "Ongania, Ferdinando." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed December 3, 2015)

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