Art in quest of history

Reviving the Renaissance: The Use and Abuse of the Past in Nineteenth‐Century Italian Art and Decoration. By Rosanna Pavoni, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xiii + 281 pp. $69.95, £45.00 cloth.     

On ideology and aesthetics

Fascist Visions: Art and Ideology in France and Italy. By Matthew Affron and Mark Antliff, eds. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997) ix + 283 pp. $59.50, £45.00 cloth, $19.95, £14.95 paper.