The ghostly grandeur of Siena's greatest architectural ambition haunts this atmospheric pre-linen card — a moody black-and-white study of the Duomo Nuovo, the "New Cathedral" that was never finished. In 1339, the Republic of Siena launched a breathtakingly audacious project to build what would have been the largest cathedral in all of Christendom, dwarfing even Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore; the Black Death of 1348 killed the dream along with a third of Europe's population, leaving the half-built nave walls standing open to the sky for nearly seven centuries. The card captures this haunting ruin — roofless walls, soaring blind arcades of black and white marble, the stark geometry of ambition halted — alongside the side wall of the existing completed Duomo at left. Published by Ed. Ditta Lombardi, Siena and printed by the quality rotogravure firm Rotocalcografia Civicchioni, Chiavari, this is a well-produced example of Italian provincial postcard publishing from the Fascist era.