Volume 53, Number 3 · February 23, 2006
The Art of the Dead
By James Fenton
Italian Memorial Sculpture, 1820–1940: A Legacy of Love
by Sandra Berresford, with introductory essays by James Stevens Curl and Fred S. Licht, additional articles by Francesca Bregoli and Franco Sborgi, and photographs by Robert W. Fichter and Robert Freidus
London: Frances Lincoln, 256 pp., £40.00
Some years ago, I was being driven through the suburbs of Milan when we passed an astonishing façade in the 'medieval Lombard style,' all horizontal stripes in contrasting stones and extending for a quarter of a mile. 'What's that?' I asked the driver. 'Cemetery.' 'What sort of cemetery?' 'For the rich,' said the driver, a man of few words. This was the Cimitero Monumentale, or the Monumentale for short—the great nineteenth-century burial ground of Milan.
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