"Renovatio" Reconsidered: Richard Krautheimer and the Iconography of Architecture
Catherine Carver Mccurrach
In 1942 Richard Krautheimer (1897-1994) published two seminal articles, "Introduction to an ' Iconography of Mediaeval Architecture'" and "The Carolingian Revival Early Christian Architecture. "This essay seeks consider, within a broad historiographie context, the impact these their ready assimilation in field medieval architectural studies, later codification Krautheimer's Rome: Profile City, 312-1308 (1980), manner which they have shaped field. A critical examination articles together suggests that significant tensions operate between conceptual formulation method realities its application. Moreover, situating work intellectual context reveals influence Warburg's approach, his symbiotic exchange with Panofsky, and, most significantly, clear traces imprint mentor, Paul Frankl. theses, it is proposed, structure development Western tradition, revival as conduit from classical architecture Renaissance beyond. His project order led compromising for structural concerns greater narrative. The history ideas offered locked monuments twelfthcentury Rome into singular reading—a result completely at odds attractive fluidity method. It also has limited our scope inquiry specific set monuments, thus return we can expand parameters study beyond those papal purview.
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