Monte Cassino Abbey — ceramic art tile

Monte Cassino Abbey

Keepsake · 2 in / Glossy / Loose
$22.00
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Monte Cassino Abbey — ceramic art tile
  • Monte Cassino Abbey — ceramic art tile
  • Monte Cassino Abbey — front
  • Monte Cassino Abbey — scale
  • Monte Cassino Abbey — gifting
  • Monte Cassino Abbey — grouping
  • Above the bench, in a warm oak surround.
  • Beside the kettle, propped on the counter.
  • Above the linens, in a slim black surround.
  • On the nightstand, on a light oak stand.
  • On a picture ledge, where the light comes in.
  • Monte Cassino Abbey — ceramic art tile
  • Monte Cassino Abbey — front
  • Monte Cassino Abbey — scale
  • Monte Cassino Abbey — gifting
  • Monte Cassino Abbey — grouping
  • Above the bench, in a warm oak surround.
  • Beside the kettle, propped on the counter.
  • Above the linens, in a slim black surround.
  • On the nightstand, on a light oak stand.
  • On a picture ledge, where the light comes in.
Monte Cassino Abbey

Monte Cassino Abbey

$22.00
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The first Benedictine house, on a hill the road to Rome had to pass. Benedict founded it around 529 and wrote his Rule here; he and his sister Scholastica still lie beneath the high altar. The place has been levelled and raised four times: Lombards, Saracens, an earthquake, and in February 1944 a thousand tons of Allied bombs that left nothing standing. The monks rebuilt it stone for stone, exactly as it was. Across the valley a Polish cemetery holds the men who took the ruin. People climb the last switchbacks and go quiet at the top.

Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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