Rikhard Krauthaimer Knihy

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 ?

Der vorliegende Band vereint die wichtigsten Aufsätze Richard Krautheimers, des unbestreitbar besten Romkenners. Hierbei spannt sich der Bogen der Themen von der frühchristlichen Kirchenarchitektur über die Kunst und Kunsttheorie der Renaissance bis zu der Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts - im Mittelpunkt aber steht die frühchristliche Architektur. Krautheimer untersucht die Baukörper in ihren Entwicklungsstufen bis ins Detail, vergleicht sie in Hinblick auf ihre Gemeinsamkeiten und Differenzen, ohne jedoch bei der reinen Beschreibung stehen zu bleiben - vielmehr begreift er das Gebäude als begehbare Mitteilung.