Secondo Pia (9 September 1855 – 7 September 1941) was an Italian lawyer and amateur photographer. He is best known for taking the first photographs of the Shroud of Turin on 28 May 1898 and, when he was developing them, noticing that the photographic negatives showed a positive image of the man in the shroud in addition to a clearer rendition of the image. The image he obtained from the shroud has been approved by the Roman Catholic Church as part of the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus.
Pia was born in Asti, Piedmont, and was an attorney who was also interested in art and science. In the early 1870s he began to explore the new technology of photography, and by the 1890s he was a city councilor and a member of Turin's Amateur Photographers' Club.[1] He became a well known photographer in Turin, and examples of his other photographs are now part of the historical collection at the Turin Cinema Museum.[2] Pia can be considered a pioneer in the field of photography for using electric lightbulbs in the 1890s, as lightbulbs were a novelty in the late nineteenth century, with Thomas Edison's reliable incandescent light bulb having been invented in 1879.
SecondoPia (9 September 1855 – 7 September 1941) was an Italian lawyer and amateur photographer. He is best known for taking the first photographs of...
negative than in its natural sepia color, an effect discovered in 1898 by SecondoPia, who produced the first photographs of the shroud. This negative image...
Wednesday) for all Roman Catholics. On the occasion of the 100th year of SecondoPia's (May 28, 1898) first photograph of the Shroud of Turin, on Sunday May...
amateur photographer SecondoPia in 1898. The image cannot be clearly seen on the shroud itself with the naked eye, and it surprised Pia to the extent that...
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inventor, featured his wife's hand and ring. Shroud of Turin negative 1898 SecondoPia Turin, Italy Photographic negative of an ancient cloth relic shows details...
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Part of a series on the Shroud of Turin 1898 negative image by SecondoPia (detail) History Conservation-restoration Research project Carbon dating Fringe...
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Part of a series on the Shroud of Turin 1898 negative image by SecondoPia (detail) History Conservation-restoration Research project Carbon dating Fringe...
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Andrea. "Una reliquia costantinopolitana dei panni sepolcrali di Gesù secondo la Cronaca del crociato Robert de Clari"., in «Medioevo greco» 11 (2011)...
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papal bull, Apostolicae Curae. 1897: Thérèse of Lisieux dies. 1898: SecondoPia takes the first photographs of the Shroud of Turin. 1900: Edward Elgar...
Part of a series on the Shroud of Turin 1898 negative image by SecondoPia (detail) History Conservation-restoration Research project Carbon dating Fringe...
Palmas (1918–1977) Dino Pedriali (1950–2021) Paolo Pellizzari (born 1956) SecondoPia (1855–1941) Fabio Ponzio (born 1959) Felice Quinto (1929–2010) Vittorio...
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Territoire de Kouang-Tchéou-Wan, forming part of French Indochina. May 28 – SecondoPia takes the first photographs of the Shroud of Turin and discovers that...
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further promoted by Maria Pierina de Micheli based on the image from SecondoPia's photograph of the Shroud of Turin. In 1958, Pope Pius XII approved of...
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