Help with a picture where,who and when?

[koolaidsmile]

Does anyone have any clue who,where or when this picture could be? Any help would be fantabulous!! :-) thank you!!

Kathy (koolaidsmile) :-)

 

[koolaidsmile]

Kathy (koolaidsmile) :-)

 

[Frankyg]

I don't know why but my first impression is somewhere in Greece or possibly Italy.

 

[Uncle Jeff]

Ohh I want to follow this thread, looks really kewl

My observations, A Monk Sitting (the man) in front of a harbor town (all the boats off to his left shoulder) on an Island (due to the steep rise in elevation behind the bay) in the tropics (due to the potted palm tree outdoors) with century old architectural buildings. This shouldn't be too hard, but I would love to know myself looks like a neat place to visit

 

[Peyton Manning]

ok is it just me or above the buildings is that a drive in movie screen?

 

[Peyton Manning]

that pretty much is how I picture Treasure_Hunter, but I don't see his tommy gun

 

[KEYSHUNTER]

looks photo shopped, i see no shoes on him ,mural in background,well no feet at all

 

[gunner45]

It looks like a Franciscan monk on the shores of Italy
Kind of hard to nail a date down exactly though

 

[Peyton Manning]

feet are hidden by robe, why on earth would anyone photo shop that?
It could be anywhere in the Mediteranean (however you spell it) thousands of islands and miles of shoreline

 

[releventchair]

Cordage draped over his right leg, has beads on it i think. Prayer beads,or worry beads?.
Might help.

 

[wainzoid]

ok is it just me or above the buildings is that a drive in movie screen?

Looks like a John wayne movie to me :-)

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Looks like it was taken at Mount Athos (Macedonia, Greece). The sepia tint would be consistant with an image taken from 1880 to 1930.

 

[Uncle Jeff]

ok is it just me or above the buildings is that a drive in movie screen?

to me it is bigger than that .. and actually looks like the reflection in a window of some show on TV I ignored this in my first post. So this picture was taken inside behind a glass window from inside a balcony .... and the TV behind is reflecting on the glass.. l

 

[austin]

Greek orthodox priest, Greece ot Turkey, date?

 

[surf]

Hey Kathy,

What sort of picture do you have?

It seems to be the Capuchin Convent on the Amalfi Coast

James McGillis - Teacher, Writer, Photographer

 

[mical66]

good ID surf.

i was going to say it was italy for sure and the reason i know this is it looks like the same city lightning McQueen raced in with those skinny winding roads on top of walls and bridges.., in Cars 2. which i have had to watch 500 times with my kids,,,lol

 

[pippinwhitepaws]

dang surf....

 

[Frankyg]

Good surfin' Surf.

Something is still bugging me about this photograph. I'm sure I have seen it before somewhere but I can't remember where. I've been racking my brain trying to remember but I can't.

Have you any more info on it Surf?

 

[surf]

Hello Frankyg,

The photo was taken by Carlo Brogi, sometime before 1899 when the landslide decimated the pergola. Carlo was the son of the noted Florentine photographer Giacomo Brogi.

Giacomo Brogi (1822-1881), Portrait of Giuseppe Verdi.​

Carlo made a series of landscapes at the Convent and along the Amalfi Coast.

Brogi,Carlo - Amalfi

It was a great view, a favorite of those taking the Grand Tour. "Round the headlands far away, sweeps the blue Salernian bay"

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[cw0909]

to me it is bigger than that .. and actually looks like the reflection in a window of some show on TV I ignored this in my first post. So this picture was taken inside behind a glass window from inside a balcony .... and the TV behind is reflecting on the glass.. l

i think this is the original, but im at a loss to explain kools img,as there was no tv in 1925,maybe a movie projector
or somehow at a later date

File:Brogi, Carlo (1850-1925) - n. 10338 - Contorni di Napoli - Amalfi - Panorama dalla terrazza del convento dei Cappuccini.jpg
File:Brogi, Carlo (1850-1925) - n. 10338 - Contorni di Napoli - Amalfi - Panorama dalla terrazza del convento dei Cappuccini.jpg - Wikimedia Commons