Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture

The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Series

by Richard Krautheimer

By now a classic, it presents in a single volume a coherent overall view of the history and the changing character of Early Christian and Byzantine architecture, from Rome and Milan to North Africa, from Constantinople to Greece and the Balkans, and from Egypt and Jerusalem to the villages and monasteries of Syria, Asia Minor, Armenia, and Mesopotamia.
 

Genres: Architecture, Art, Art History, History, Nonfiction

553 pages, Paperback

First published January 30, 1966

Reviews

[Illiterate · Rating 4 out of 5]

The architecture is domes over crosses. Krautheimer is very good on its continuities with late antiquity and its relationship to liturgies.

[Diva · Rating 5 out of 5]

i just love the fact that the history of any thing and everything has to be connected with the history of art and architecture, it is so much fun to understand it all together.

[Petra · Rating 3 out of 5]

vrlo kompleksna razrada, na momente naporna, ali monotoniju prikaza razbijaju slike, šteta što nisu u boji. i slova, jao, ne bi škodio veći font.

[Luis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very tough read. Although the volume is comprehensive, and the amount of research for it was colossal, I think Krautheimer has a gift to turn exciting things into boring. There are very long descriptions of buildings, like an enormous indistinguishable catalog, and very few stories to accompany the descriptions. Of course, the changes in architecture after the Justinian period are lethargic, pachydermic, so it's hard to make that section into anything fun. More on Cappadocia and Meteora would have been more exciting. The section on Hagia Sophia was amazing, though.

[Isaac Pena · Rating 3 out of 5]

meh a little racist

[Victoria · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative read and analysis of key architectural buildings of the period

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

The master edition on the art of this period.