Temple of Amour
Medium
Autochrome
Dimensions
9 x 11.9 cm (3 9/16 x 4 11/16 in.)
Classification
Transparencies
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1961
Accession Number
61.564.1
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Temples
About the Artist
Constantin Mitrofanovitsh Flórinsky
Constantin Mitrofanovitsh Flórinsky was a Russian photographer active in the early 20th century, renowned for his pioneering use of the autochrome process, one of the first practical methods for color photography introduced by the Lumière brothers in 1904. Serving as an officer in the Jaeger Regiment under Tsar Nicholas II, Flórinsky captured intimate glimpses of Imperial Russian life on the eve o...