Italian Memorial Sculpture, 1820-1940: A Legacy of Love

London: Frances Lincoln, 2004. Hardcover. VG-/VG (black discard mark on lower textblock. opening pgs to 54 have publisher's rough-cut to upper edges. boards have wear to spine edges & corners. dustjacket scuffed & scratched; series of indentations to back spine gutter; rubbing to spine edges w/ slight tear to upper). Blue cloth boards, illustrated dust jacket. 256 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Photo is of a previous copy; this copy is NOT ex-library. "In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dramatic social, political and artistic changes swept across Italy. These changes found expression in some of the most remarkable sculpture ever made. In the cemeteries that were constructed all over the Italian peninsula, starting from the Napoleonic period, funerary sculpture by renowned contemporary artists developed from relatively conventional Neoclassicism through ever more astonishing forms of Realism, informed in turn by Symbolism and by Art Deco. The emotional charge of this sometimes symbolic but more commonly hyper-realistic, often erotic and always arresting work is caught in this collection of more than 450 specially taken photographs with a scholarly text by Sandra Berresford analysing the iconographic, cultural and art historical background to the works. This is the first study in English of this important collection of artworks, and the most comprehensive in any language. It also includes an extensive bibliography and a gazetteer of Italian cemeteries to visit." -Jacket.