Before and After the End of Time: Architecture and the Year 1000

by Fogg Art Museum, James S. Ackerman, Christine Smith

Book Overview

The end of the worldand of timewas expected by many to occur in the year 1000. This was based on references in the Bible, which also described in considerable architectural detail the Heavenly City of Jerusalem that was to come. The essays in this book look at the contrast between the heavenly architecture of prophecy and the Romanesque architecture that did appear. At the turn of the first millennium, spiritual and historical notions of time were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807614939
• ISBN13: 9780807614938
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: George Braziller
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 9.5"