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Photo, Print, Drawing Gaetano Ciniselli.

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Title

  • Gaetano Ciniselli.

Summary

  • Italian-born Gaetano Ciniselli (1815-81) was the head of a large circus family, a circus equestrian, and a horse trainer who was taught by the famous French riding master François Baucher (1796-1873). He achieved fame throughout Europe and in 1877 founded and became director of the Ciniselli Circus in Saint Petersburg, which was housed in the first stone structure in Russia purpose-built for circus. He brought to the Saint Petersburg public all of the best performers and pantomimes of Europe. This portrait of Ciniselli was taken by Charles Bergamasco (1830-96), the world famous imperial photographer who was active in the Russian capital in the 1860s-1870s. Bergamasco was born in northern Italy and moved to Saint Petersburg in the 1840s with his mother, a painter. He started as an actor at the French Theater in Saint Petersburg but became interested in the new daguerreotype process, which he studied for a time in Paris. He returned to Saint Petersburg where he opened his own studio. Bergamasco won numerous prizes and became famous for his photographs of European royalty, including Tsar Alexander III and Queen Victoria. The photograph was a gift to the Bolshoi Saint Petersburg State Circus (successor to the Ciniselli Circus) by Carolina Ciniselli, one of the three daughters of Gaetano Ciniselli, all of whom were circus equestriennes.

Names

  • Bergamasco, Charles, 1830-1896 Photographer.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1870.

Headings

  • -  Russian Federation--Saint Petersburg--Saint Petersburg
  • -  1870
  • -  Ciniselli, Gaetano, 1815-1881
  • -  Circus
  • -  Circus Ciniselli
  • -  Circus performers
  • -  Entertainers
  • -  Horsemanship
  • -  Portrait photographs
  • -  Portraits

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 black and white photograph.
  • -  Reference extracted from World Digital Library: "Charles Bergamasco (active 1860s-1870s)," National Portrait Gallery, http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp82702/charles-bergamasco. External
  • -  Original resource at: The Bolshoi St. Petersburg State Circus - Museum of Circus Art.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021670651

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Bergamasco, Charles, Photographer. Gaetano Ciniselli. Russian Federation Saint Petersburg, 1870. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670651/.

APA citation style:

Bergamasco, C. (1870) Gaetano Ciniselli. Russian Federation Saint Petersburg, 1870. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021670651/.

MLA citation style:

Bergamasco, Charles, Photographer. Gaetano Ciniselli. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021670651/>.