Massive Doric columns rise against a brooding Italian sky in this gorgeous real-photo postcard of the Temple of Neptune (Tempio di Nettuno) at Paestum — one of the best-preserved ancient Greek temples in the world, its honey-colored travertine glowing even in monochrome silver-gelatin. Located in the ancient Greek colony of Poseidonia (modern Paestum) in Campania, southern Italy, this Doric masterpiece dates to around 460–450 BCE and was misidentified as Neptune's temple for centuries; modern scholarship suggests it honored Hera or Zeus. The low-angle composition chosen by the photographer emphasizes the temple's massive stylobate and the rhythmic power of its peristyle, with wildflowers growing at the base lending a romantic, slightly melancholy air to these stones that have outlasted empires. Published by Fotoedizioni Brunner & C., Como — a respected Italian fine-art photography publisher — the card is numbered 29-10 and carries the firm's distinctive art-nouveau-influenced cherub logo on the reverse, with the standard "Riproduzione vietata" (reproduction forbidden) copyright notice.