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Basilica of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva
0This 48 page Italian-language guide, measuring 15 cm × 21 cm (5 ⅞″ by 8¼″), covers the church most thoroughly: after a two-page introduction it proceeds systematically around the building, with each location numbered and keyed to a plan on the inside cover. The many works of art and monuments covered make it inevitably something of a catalogue raisonné providing summary descriptions, dates and historical background; critical appreciations do surface here and there, however. The 34 photographs illustrating the booklet are very sharp and high-quality, but the more interesting or attractive features of the church have been given somewhat short shrift in an apparent attempt to make the image selection statistically representative.