Parchment and Prayers: The Monastic Chronicle of the Certosa di Pavia Church in Lombardy

Can a building hold the weight of an empire's soul, or does stone merely outlive the men who built it?When Duke Gian Galeazzo Visconti laid the first stone of the Certosa di Pavia in the hot August of 1396, he was not merely constructing a church; he was carving a political statement in marble and securing a heavenly intercessor for his line. Nestled in the fertile plains of Lombardy, this grand s...