Rome Profile of a City, 312-1308

Name: Rome Profile of a City, 312-1308
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ISBN: 9780691049618

ISBN-10: 0691049610

ISBN-13: 9780691049618

Edition: 1980 (Revised)

Authors: Richard Krautheimer, Marvin Trachtenberg

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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…

Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 1980
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/9/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 8.70" wide x 10.98" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Foreword



Preface



Image and Reality



Rome and Constantine



The Christianization of Rome and the Romanization of Christianity



The Times of Gregory the Great



Rome between East and West



Renewal and Renascence: The Carolingian Age



Realities, Ideologies, and Rhetoric



The New Rebirth of Rome: The Twelfth Century



The Thirteenth Century: An Epilogue



Forma Urbis Romae Medievalis



The Evidence



The Inheritance



Growth of the Borgo



The Abitato



Houses, Towers. and Mansions



The Disabitato and the Lateran



Chronological List of Popes


Bibliographical Note


Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works


Notes



Places and Subjects



People