The exhibition presented at the Museo Vincenzo Vela focuses on the earliest days of photography, taking as its starting point the splendid set of nineteenth-century photographs in the Marco Antonetto Collection, which blend harmoniously into the context of Villa Vela's photographic collection. The exhibition sets itself the aim of illustrating the different manners in which Rome was viewed by those whose interest in the city was prompted by such motivations as scientific research, artistic passion or study, professional and commercial demands, or simply personal pleasure and curiosity. The selection displayed allows viewers to know and learn about the nature and specificity of the earliest aspects of photography in Rome, from the first experiments with daguerreotypes and paper negatives, t
