Main entry:

Berresford, Sandra.

Title & Author:

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.

Edition:

1st Frances Lincoln ed.

Publication:

London : Frances Lincoln, 2004.

Description:

256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-230) and index.
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.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

071122384X (hbk.)
9780711223844 (hbk.)

Subject:

Sculpture, Italian 19th century.
Monuments Italy.
Sculpture, Italian 20th century.
Sculpture italienne 19e siècle.
Monuments Italie.
Sculpture italienne 20e siècle.
Monuments.
Sculpture, Italian.
Grabplastik
Gedenktekens.
Grafmonumenten.
Sepulchral monuments Italy
Cemeteries Italy
Italy.
Italien

Added entries:

Curl, James Stevens, 1937-
Licht, Fred, 1928-
Bregoli, Francesca
Sborgi, Franco
Fichter, Robert, 1939-
Freidus, Robert

Holdings:

Location: Library main 234362
Call No.: NB1803.I8 B47 2004
Status: Available