Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy

Although buttressed by an impressively detailed history of urbanism and the transmutations of city-states from 1100 to 1600, the effort to reduce art to interest is too simple to be convincing, and the creative urgency promised in the idea of imagination gives way to the static concept of ideology-as-mystification. A good and valid synthesis, but it falls short of the more innovative claims by show more which Martines would like to be judged. show less