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