The rewriting of Pietro Marubbi's biography has clarified many shadows created over the years, as a result of the great lack of information about his life. Many questions have been answered that specify the fact that he came to Shkodra for the first time in October 1858, and that his profession was that of a painter. The age-old question: Did Marubbi come as a photographer or did he become one in Shkodra? - now has an answer, and thus the photos of Marubbi found in the archive of Sultan Abdul Hamid II are no longer unknown to us.
The first attempts to discover early photographs of Albania and the surrounding areas can be found in the work of the Canadian albanologist Robert Elsie, in his book "Early Photography from Albania and the Southwestern Balkans". He was the first to identify images of Shkodra in the collection of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
The rewriting of Pietro Marubbi's biography has clarified many shadows created over the years, as a result of the great lack of information about his life. Many questions have been answered that specify the fact that he came to Shkodra for the first time in October 1858, and that his profession was that of a painter. The age-old question: Did Marubbi come as a photographer or did he become one in Shkodra? - now has an answer, and thus the photos of Marubbi found in the archive of Sultan Abdul Hamid II are no longer unknown to us.
The first attempts to discover early photographs of Albania and the surrounding areas can be found in the work of the Canadian albanologist Robert Elsie, in his book "Early Photography from Albania and the Southwestern Balkans". He was the first to identify images of Shkodra in the collection of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.