Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308 / Edition 1

by Richard Krautheimer, Marvin Trachtenberg

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691049618
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	04/09/2000
Edition description:	With a New foreword by Marvin Trachtenberg
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Richard Krautheimer was Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. He authored numerous works, including The Rome of Alexander VII, 1655-1667 and Lorenzo Ghiberti (both Princeton).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Marvin Trachtenberg

Preface

Part I Image and Reality

CHAPTER ONE Rome and Constantine

CHAPTER TWO The Christianization of Rome and the Romanization of Christianity

CHAPTER THREE The Times of Gregory the Great

CHAPTER FOUR Rome between East and West

CHAPTER FIVE Renewal and Renascence: The Carolingian Age

CHAPTER SIX Realities, Ideologies, and Rhetoric

CHAPTER SEVEN The New Rebirth of Rome: The Twelfth Century

CHAPTER EIGHT The Thirteenth Century: An Epilogue

Part II Forma Urbis Romae Medievalis

CHAPTER NINE The Evidence

CHAPTER TEN The Inheritance

CHAPTER ELEVEN Growth of the Borgo

CHAPTER TWELVE The Abitato

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Houses, Towers. and Mansions

CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Disabitato and the Lateran

APPENDIX Chronological List of Popes Bibliographical Note

Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works

Notes

INDEX I Places and Subjects

INDEX II People

Editorial Reviews

"The new edition of the Profile is a welcome return of an unsurpassed study of a period of Rome's history that is difficult to tell . . . [It] is difficult to find fault in such an undertaking or to review its significance when few would dare attempt the same project today."—-C.M. Richardson, The Art Book

From the Publisher

"Everyone should be grateful for this learned and humane work, which combines a powerful grasp of the principles and minutiae of the history of Western art with a detailed topographical grasp of this complex city."

The New York Review of Books

The new edition of the Profile is a welcome return of an unsurpassed study of a period of Rome's history that is difficult to tell . . . [It] is difficult to find fault in such an undertaking or to review its significance when few would dare attempt the same project today.

The Art Book - C.M. Richardson

The new edition of the Profile is a welcome return of an unsurpassed study of a period of Rome's history that is difficult to tell . . . [It] is difficult to find fault in such an undertaking or to review its significance when few would dare attempt the same project today.
— C.M. Richardson

The Art Book

It would be difficult to find a word other than masterpiece to describe this book.

Church History

Krautheimer's book shows us what history and art history can be when they are truly combined.

Speculum

Everyone should be grateful for this learned and humane work, which combines a powerful grasp of the principles and minutiae of the history of Western art with a detailed topographical grasp of this complex city.

New York Review of Books