Villa Maria in Posillipo, Naples (via Posillipo, 52), is famous for having hosted Étienne-Jules Marey, a French scientist and chronophotographer.
"In 1870 Marey had enough money to purchase a large house, Villa Maria, in Posillipo, just outside Naples, where he set up a laboratory and began to spend the winters each year”1, meeting friends from all over the world. Among his friends, his colleague Anton Dohrn, the founder and director of Naples' Stazione Zoologica. Inspired by this public aquarium, Marey nurtured his great passion for studying fish and cephalopod locomotion. He tried to capture fishes and birds motion with a chronophotographic gun, marking thus the early histories of cinema and physiology.
These are some beautiful views of Naples probably shot from the same place where Marey was portraited hanging his chronophotographic gun2.
- Photos by Francesca Fiori Nastro ti.supmacla|ortsaniroif.f#| (November 2011)
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