Eugene Kleinbauer

Indiana University Bloomington | IUB · Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts (SoFA)

A multiplicity of genres flourishes in 20th century art history, and this variety may be taken as its most salient characteristic. Art historians adopt any one or several of a number of avenues of approach in their intellectual study of the visual arts: materials and technique; problems of authorship, authenticity, dating, and provenance; structura...

This fascinating investigation of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul amasses a wealth of documentation—some of it well known and some of it new—to document and assess how it became a modern icon. It focuses on the people, writings, and illustrations that illuminate this "reception history." Intelligently and beautifully written, and well produced, with 119 f...

This paper investigates what I identify as the most significant invention in Christian architecture of the fourth century: the double-shelled building type. The three earliest examples are the Great Church in Antioch, the Rotunda of the Holy Sepulchre compound in Jerusalem, and the Mausoleum of Constantina in Rome. All three edifices featured a cen...

Occupying a central position in the problem of the origins of Armenian ecclesiastical architecture is the church of Zvart'nots, even in ruins an impressive site (Fig. 1). Like a ziggurat towering up mountainously from the flat plain of the Ararat plateau between Etchmiadzin and Erevan, the capital of the Soviet republic of Armenia, Zvart'nots stood...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1967.

Thesis (M.A. in History of Art)--University of California, Berkeley, Jan. 1962. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 150-167). Microfilm. s

W. Eugene Kleinbauer, Indiana University, kleinbau@indiana.edu