Framed by the shadowed arches of a Renaissance cloister, this rare real-photo postcard pulls you into the serene garden courtyard of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan — the very church that shelters Leonardo's Last Supper on its refectory wall. Sunlight catches the elegant arcade of the Chiostro Grande, while Bramante's soaring drum-and-dome tribune rises in the background, a masterpiece of Lombard Renaissance architecture commissioned by Ludovico Sforza in the 1490s. The crisp silver gelatin image, numbered 72 in the Traldi series, captures the cloister's potted plants and climbing vines with a photographer's eye for depth and calm — the kind of image a Grand Tour traveler might have tucked into a leather journal alongside pressed flowers and museum tickets. Ed. A. Traldi of Milan was one of the city's most prolific early-twentieth-century postcard publishers, known for high-quality photographic views sold to discerning tourists.