Torino Esp. 1911 - Pad. dell'Inghilterra

This is a picture postcard of the Pavilion of England (Padiglione dell’Inghilterra) at the 1911 Turin International Exposition. The photograph is printed in a deep monochrome on a cream card stock, set within a faint embossed plate-mark border. It shows an exuberant neo-Baroque building: Two tall corner towers frame the facade, each rising in stacked tiers to an onion-like cupola topped with a crown-shaped lantern. Between them, the central bay culminates in a richly scrolled, curved pediment carrying a heraldic coat of arms flanked by sculpted figures. Balustraded terraces run across the front, and an open colonnaded loggia extends to the left.