Proceedings of the 1st Seminar on Late Antique and Early Middle Ages in Southern Italy. Forty essays are accompanied by rich images and extensive bibliographies.

An illustrated guide to the ancient Italian territory of the Etruscans (Latium) with specific entries on Cerveteri, Civitavecchia and Tarquinia amongst others.  Many colour photographs throughout.  Large paperback.  72 pages.  Very good clean condition.

An attractive and detailed record of the unique C14th civic frescoes in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico portraying aspects of good and bad government in allegorical fashion.  Colour illustrations show the frescoes alongside keys to the people shown and several close-up detailed depictions.

A large format album of the incomparable  frescoes adorning several large walls of the Siena Palazzo Pubblico  and completed by two C14th artists - including Simone Martini's huge 'Maesta or Madonna with Angels and Saints' and opposite this his  'Equestrian Portrait of Guidoriccio

A guide to the Modena lapidarium which contains a large number of Roman funerary monuments and stelae from a local necropolis.  Twenty-five carved stones are illustrated and described.  A Glossary and Bibliograohy follow.  Text in Italian.  Paperback.  64 pages.

Describes the palaeo-Christian church in Liguria dating from the C6th that lies as a ruined crypt structure directly below the later C17th baroque church visible today and the excavations carried out during the 1940's that revealed much of its original layout and recovered remains of its ornament

A guide to the pre-Roman Italic and Etruscan history of Italy with illustrations taken from the museum's own collection of artefacts. Forty-two b&w photographs.  Extensive bibliography. Paperback.  86 pages. Small neat inscription to half-title page, otherwise good clean condition.

The most thorough description available of the purpose and structure of the Christian catacombs beneath Rome dating from 2nd to 4th centuries and revered at the time, then lost, only to be rediscovered in the C17th and the subject of systematic excavations during the C19th when interest peaked.

In an attempt to divert some of the tourist attention away from a few well known museums in Rome this guide attempts to shine a light on the collections of twenty-eight of Latium's regional museums whose collections have little or no supporting documentation or cataogues, yet hold important displ

An attractive full colour pocket guide to the collections of the Museum of the Fabric of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, otherwise known as L’Opera del Duomo which include Renaissance marble sculptures, reliquaries, altar pieces, carved bas-reliefs and the polychrome terracotta statuary of Luc