Colour photographic prints, 18cm x 13cm (x2), (40cm x 50 in mount), unframed.

Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum (pepla plural), is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or biblical epics mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budget Hollywood historical epics of the time, such as Ben-Hur, Spartacus and Cleopatra. These films dominated the Italian film industry from 1958 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by spaghetti Westerns.

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