Le Musée d'Olympie
A 1909 Athens guide to the Olympia Museum, written by K. Kourouniōtēs and published by S.C. Vlasto for visitors and students of Greek and Roman sculpture. The photographs show museum display rooms with marble heads, fragments, and standing statues on plain dark backdrops, with little ornament beyond the objects themselves. A designer could take from them the quiet, catalogued arrangement of classical stone, with pale marble set against black grounds and numbered plinths.
