Italian memorial sculpture, 1820-1940 : a legacy of love / Sandra Berresford ; introductory essays by James Stevens Curl, Fred S. Licht ; additional articles by Francesca Bregoli, Franco Sborgi ; photographs by Robert W. Fichter, Robert Freidus
2004, 1st edition in this form. London : Frances Lincoln. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #387433
Physical description; 256 pp., illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm. Contents; Preface / Robert Freidus and Robert W. Fichter -- short history of the cemetery movement in Europe / James Stevens Curl -- Italian funerary sculpture after Canova / Fred S. Licht -- 1. From neoclassicism to purism -- 2. From purism to Romantic realism -- 3. Realism -- 4. Bistolfi and the new symbolist funeral iconography -- 5. Symbolism and liberty style -- 6. 'Bistolfians' and the Bistolfian style -- 7. Art deco -- Iconography. Subjects; Sculpture, Italian 19th century. Monuments Italy. Sepulchral monuments. Cemeteries.
Price: €225.00