L'art en Saintonge et en Aunis
A photographic album of Romanesque church architecture in the Saintonge and Aunis regions of western France, compiled by L. Julien-Laferrière and published in Toulouse in 1879 for students and architects of medieval art. The plates show exteriors, a church with a square tower and apse, and a sculpted doorway with carved archivolts, photographed in plain black and white with strong light and shadow. A designer could take from them the weathered stone textures, the rhythm of stacked arches, and the dense carved ornament of the portal.
