Date: Before 1825

Object type and technique: etching and acquatint ; cm 37,7  x 54,3

Topographic Collection of Genoa Municipality, inv. 1736

Description:

The engraving technique of the aquatint was used in the nineteenth century to imitate the effects of watercolour with printing, managing to create dramatic backgrounds with light and dark contrast and to propose brave lighting effects. In this view of the port, Garibbo does not abandon the documentary dimension, but faces the complexity of the urban

Open-air Market in Piazza Nunziata
Date: 1925

Photographic Archive of Genoa Municipality, inv. 4286

Description:

The photograph tells us when the peasant women and the farmers from Polcevera came down to the heart of the city to bring vegetables and fruits, with baskets, panniers and  mandilli, to Piazza Nunziata. It was 1925.

Borgo Lanaiuoli and Piazza Ponticello
Date: 1920

Photographic Archive of Genoa Municipality, inv. 12432

Description:
The urban transformations of the twentieth century marked the demolition of the medieval city, transforming places of sanguine residentiality into anemic spaces for the ruling class. Three scars of nostalgia on the line of Torbido river: Ponticello, 1930s; Piccapietra, 1950s; Madre di Dio, 1970s. Every twenty years a wound, a prophecy of a non-place. Here you can see Ponticello and Borgo Lanaiuoli, before the construction of Torre Piacentini, the tallest skyscraper in Europe for a few years.