State Theatre

Peter Burke

  • The Rome of Alexander VII: 1655-1667 by Richard Krautheimer
    Princeton, 199 pp, £16.80, November 1985, ISBN 0 691 04032 X
  • Firearms and Fortifications: Military Architecture and Siege Warfare in 16th-century Siena by Simon Pepper and Nicholas Adams
    Chicago, 245 pp, £21.25, October 1986, ISBN 0 226 65534 2

Art and Power. The connections between the two have come to preoccupy political historians and art historians alike in the last few years. ‘Culture and society’, the slogan of the 1960s, has been almost effaced – for better or worse, or for both – by ‘the politics of culture’. Political historians are coming to take paintings, poems and buildings more seriously as part of their evidence, while art historians are increasingly concerned with replacing the artifacts they study in their political settings.

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