Volume 28, Number 8 · May 14, 1981
Born Again?
By Peter Partner
Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308
by Richard Krautheimer
Princeton University Press, 389 260 illus pp., $16.50 (paper)
Richard Krautheimer's book on medieval Rome owes much to his lectures at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York. Less obviously, the book has been influenced by a great scholarly enterprise in which, with a few others, Krautheimer has been engaged for half a century: the Corpus of the Christian Basilicas of Rome. The Corpus Basilicarum Christianarum Romae is a technical archaeological and historical survey of the churches built in Rome from the fourth through the ninth centuries. Each church is described, the main events of its architectural history are listed down to the present day, the learned literature relating to it is catalogued, and the questions it poses for the scholar are discussed. The Corpus is now complete. It has been published—and this is not entirely irrelevant to the character of Krautheimer's work—in the Vatican City.
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