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 the relatively conventional Neo-classicism through the ever more astonishing forms of Realism, informed in turn by Symbolism and by Art Deco.

The emotional charge of these sometimes symbolic, but more commonly, hyper-realistic, often erotic and always arresting, work is caught in this collection of specially taken photographs, while the scholarly text analyse the iconographic, cultural and art historical background to the work.

Written by Courtauld graduate, Sandra Berresford, there are also two introductory essays by James Stevens Curl and Fred S. Licht, and two additional articles by Francesca Bregoli and Franco Sborgi. The photographs are by Robert W. Fichter and Robert Freidus.

$70.00 in the United States, £40 in the UK