Country Church Monuments

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In 'Country Church Monuments', he presents 365 of the very best, each accompanied by detailed photographs, biographies of both the deceased and their sculptors and a wealth of contextual material. Ugaz’s case is all too familiar in Peru, where powerful groups regularly use the courts to silence journalists by fabricating criminal allegations against them.

A magnificent book - a tremendous achievement, a thing of beauty and a volume that should have a place on every church lover's shelves -- Nigel Andrew * Literary Review * Astonishing and beautifully photographed. The survival of both the tomb and much of its original context is extraordinary enough, but the monument itself is something special.The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. The subjects and styles are so different as to be clearly by sculptors of different artistic cultures and times.

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