Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308
Richard Krautheimer
In this classic study, surveying the city's life from Christian Antiquity through Middle Ages, Richard Krautheimer focuses on monuments of art and architecture as they reflect historical events, ideological currents, meaning Rome held for its contemporaries. Lavishly illustrated, book tells an intriguing story in which heritage antiquity intertwines with living presence Christianity. Written by one great historians our time, it offers a profile Eternal City unlike any drawn past or likely to be future.Krautheimer was never (or only rarely) interested studying heavily researched subjects, valorizing what already valorized, reconquering had long been conquered reconquered. He at heart pioneer, discoverer, master uncharted scholarly terrain age when so many things were thought understood.--From preface Marvin Trachtenberg
Art Bulletin