Krautheimer Richard. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture

Penguin Books, 1975. — 584 p. — (The Pelican History of Art).In this new edition Professor Krautheimer, long regarded as the foremost expert on the period, has exhaustively revised and updated his text and had many plans and figures re-drawn. His work traces the liturgical influences and technical developments of religious building from the earliest Christian community houses and the great basilicas of Constantine’s reign in the West down to the sixth century. In the East it follows the course of Christian and Byzantine architecture from the earliest churches in the Holy Land, Syria, and Greece and the gigantic undertakings of Justinian down to the fall of Constantinople.