Product Description

Saint Sophia is surely one of the most-discussed buildings in the history of architecture.Contemporaries were awed by it and it astounds us today.Virtually no author of a basic ...book on Byzantine architecture would dream of leaving it out.The quantity of information about Saint Sophia is vast;how,then,is this little book different from the rest? Kleinbauer examines contemporary,as well as ancient sources in the light of his own comprehensive understanding of Byzantine architecture.

As [he]states in hi s conclusions,his aim is to demonstrate that its structure and design were sui generis rather than derivative and,in a book so clearly written that students will find it invaluable and so thoroughly researched that scholars will be unable to ignore it,he achieves that goal.

Illustrated with photographs and plans

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1214532 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 95 pages

About the Author
Trained at Berkeley and Princeton,and Professor of Fine Arts and Near Eastern Languages at Indi ana University for more than twenty years,Eugene Kleinbauer is a noted scholar and author of several books on Early Christian and Byzantine art and architecture.Kleinbauer was the sixteenth holder of the Frederick Lindley Morgan Chair of Architectural Design at the University of Louisville.This study of Saint Sophia grows out of his Morgan Lecture.