CFTIvisual, Atlante delle fonti visive dei terremoti italiani

More than three decades of historical earthquake studies has produced many iconographic testimonies that may be used by scholars to gain further insight into the extent and economical value of the damage suffered. The type of images that emerged from specific research on the effects of earthquakes is very rich and varied: it includes drawings associated with damage assessment, engravings taken from real life drawings, prints, paintings, watercolors, mosaics, frescoes, and photographs. A class of its own, very valuable for the study of historical earthquakes, is the exact localization of earthquake effects on topographic maps; a type of source that allows the impact of specific major earthquakes to be displayed in great geographical detail.