Vincenzo Galdi
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Vincenzo Galdi was an Italian model and photographer. Galdi is regarded as a pioneer in Italian erotic photography. He is known to be the first to break the taboo of depicting an erect penis.
Vincenzo Galdi photographed by Wilhelm von Plüschow in Posillipo, around 1890
Rosa D'Amore, photographed by Vincenzo Galdi at the end of 19th century
Poster of the show "I Cammorristi nel Carcere della Vicaria", in which Galdi played the role of Aniello, performed in 1890 at the Theater Folly of Naples
Vincenzo Galdi (left) and Mario Rutelli (right) outside the sculptor's studio in Via Margutta, Rome, 1901
Piazza della Repubblica is a circular piazza in Rome, at the summit of the Viminal Hill, next to the Termini station. On it is to be found Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri. It is served by the R
Vincenzo Galdi
…for "outraging public morals" due to overly audacious photographs. When the sculptor Mario Rutelli was commissioned to renew the Naiads fountain on Piazza della Repubblica, he collaborated with Galdi. They met at a Masonic lodge to which both belonged. Galdi had just returned from Paris, where he visited a Rodin exhibition…
Panorama of the Piazza.
Panorama of the Piazza Esedra (Piazza della Repubblica) from 1964 postcard
The Fountain of the Naiads