Cloister of San Martino Monastery in Naples, Italy, 1870s; In Italian-Chiostro del convento di San Martino.
by Robert Rive;
albumen print
The monastery was converted into a museum in 1866, dedicated to the hisotry of Naples by Giuseppe Fiorelli. Fiorelli was monumental in the excavation of Pompeii and created the plaster casts of those people and animals that died when Vesuvius erupted.