Casamari : monumento del secolo XIII
A late nineteenth-century Italian photographic album by Luigi De Persiis, published in Frosinone in 1890, documenting the thirteenth-century Cistercian abbey of Casamari for a general audience. The sepia photographs show the abbey's exterior facade, nave and vaulted interior, chapter hall, and cloister, all shot straight-on with even light and no people posed for effect, giving a designer clear reference for medieval Gothic arches, ribbed vaults and monastic courtyard proportions.
