HART 104. Case Studies in Ancient and Medieval Architecture

Part II.  The Medieval World

 

 

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Lecture 1:  Old Saint Peter's

                Constantine, Conversion and the Creation of Monumental Christian Architecture

 

Diocletian and the Tetrarchy, 284-306

Constantine the Great, 306-337

312 Battle of the Milvian Bridge

313 Edict of Milan

325 Council of Nicae

Eusebius

Legend of the "Vision of the True Cross"

Chi Rho, christogram, chi (X), rho (P), iota (I)

The Four Tetrarchs, from Constantinople, ca. 305

Portrait of Constantine, from Basilica Nova

"New Rome", Byzantium, Constantinople

 

domus ecclesius

Christian community house at Dura Europas, Syria, ca. 240-256

titular house

S. Crisogono, Rome,c. 310

 

Maison Carrée, Nîmes (France), 1-10

Basilica Nova (Basilica of Constantine), Rome, ca. 306-312

Basilica Ulpia (Forum of Trajan), Rome, dedicated 112

Constantine's Basilica at Trier  (Germany), early fourth century

 

Saint John Lateran or the Lateran Basilica  (S. Giovanni in Laterno) completed 313

Liber Pontificalis

cathedral

cathedra

baptistry

 

Old Saint Peter's Rome                                                                cantharus

Vatican Hill                                                                                Pigna (bronze pinecone)

Necropolis                                                                                 Christ and the Twenty-Four Elders

Mausoleum                                                                                             from Revelations 4:1-8

Martyrium                                                                                  adventus

covered cemetery                                                                          dominus legum dat

memoria

propylaeum

atrium

narthex

five-aisled nave

trabeated arcade

arcuated arcade

clerestory

transept

triumphal arch

apse

ciborium

spolia