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522:(1985) combined social history, vast breadth of archival knowledge and insightful architectural history into single volumes. In both cases, Krautheimer selected comparatively neglected periods in Roman history to offer a compelling narrative of the interaction of public works and patronage. While assisting friends with plans for his 100th birthday,
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Professor of Fine Arts. The early 1950s were devoted to researching his one monograph on an artist, Lorenzo
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Krautheimer who later introduced Frankl's work to the United States. The systematizing methodology of Krautheimer's mentor, Frankl, "never left Krautheimer" according to Willibald Sauerlander.
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for the years 1942–44. Here he analyzed aerial photographs of Rome to assist in the protection of historic buildings during bombing. While still at
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The architecture of Sixtus III: a fifth-century renascence?
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Die Kirchen der Bettelorden in Deutschland (1240–1340)
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