Basilica Palladiana
Andrea Palladio, architect
Begun in 1549
Completed in 1617 after Palladio's death
Located in the central Piazza dei Signori in Vicenza, north-eastern Italy ...
In the Roman Catholic Church today, "basilica" is a canonical title given to certain churches and carrying special liturgical privileges.
Examples from Buffalo architecture:
Illustration above: St. Anthony of Padua RC Church ...
Basilicas were also adapted to the function as audience halls as part of palace complexes. A good example of this is presented by the Palace Basilica of Constantine in the northern German town of Trier: ...
Basilica
In Roman architecture, a public building for assemblies, especially tribunals, rectangular in plan, entered on a long side.
Basilica: a rectangular building with an ambulatory or else a central nave and lateral aisles and lit by a clerestory, the row of windows above the inner colonnades ...
Basilica. In ancient Rome the basilica was a public building which served several purposes of an institutional nature, both civil and religious. The building was generally rectangular and was divided by colonnades.
Basilica - The public hall that formed a gathering point in every Roman city, usually with a rectangular plan ending in as apse and divided by a double file of columns. It was the inspiration for the early Christian churches.
Basilica.
(Literally a Royal Building) An aisled building with a clerestory, most often a church. (Also mostly with a multi-domed roof and can be of immense size.
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Basilica
During the Roman Empire this was a type of large public building with an open interior and usually with side aisles separated from the main space by rows of evenly spaced columns.
basilica: originally a Roman judgement hall; later used to mean a building with arcades, aisles and clerestories.
bastion: a tower-like structure projecting from the corners or from the length of an outer wall, as used in fortified buildings.
basilica
In Roman architecture, an oblong building used for public administration, from which Early Christian churches evolved.
BASILICA
A Roman public hall; hence an aisled building with a clerestory.
BATTER
An inclined face of wall; hence battered ...
basilica - long halls serving a variety of civic purposed - beginning in Hellenistic Greece. They became standard in every Roman town for courts of law.
basilica : The early Greek name for a royal palace; a large oblong building with double columns and a semicircular apse at one end, frequently used by Christian emperors of Rome for religious purposes.
Basilica
(a) in Roman architecture, an oblong building used for tribunals and other public functions; (b) in Christian architecture, an early church with similar features to the Roman prototype.
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Basilica
Originally a Roman, large roofed hall erected for transacting business and disposing of legal matters.; later the term came to describe an aisled bui...
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Basilica - Rectangular hall with double colonnade and apse for altar at one (east) end, used by the Romans for law courts and other assemblies and later for the basic Christian church form.
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Cathedral of San Giovanni in Laterano. Basilical plan terminates in an apse. Nave transformed by Borromini, 17th century.
Basilica : A term sometimes used in reference to a cathedral for ceremonial reasons, although traditionally denoting an earlier form of structure.
basilica - an early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica; or a Roman Catholic church or cathedral accorded certain privileges; "the church was raised to the rank of basilica" ...
Basilica
- Roman, a public hall, usually where justice was administered.
Basilica
In ancient Roman architecture, a large oblong building, generally with double columns and a semicircular apse at one end. In Christian architecture, a church with a nave, apse, and aisles.
In the basilica at Bethlehem, the east end of which was reconstructed probably in the 5th century, apses of similar dimensions to the eastern apse were built at the north and south end of the transept.
Building:Basilica of Sainte Therese
Date: begun 1929, consecrated 1954
Interior view of crossing
Interior view of crypt ...
the modified basilican plan with its triple aisles crossed by a projecting transept, and its three apses.
Churches built on a basilican plan and having a sloping roof rather than vaulting (which was not readopted until about the year 1000) form part of the Early Christian architectural tradition.
basilica (basilique in French; basilika in German) Term describing an architectural style, the status of a church, or both.
Transept: A rectangular area which cuts across the main axis of a basilica-type building and projects beyond it.
The first form was taken from the early Christian and Roman basilica forms, which created a long central barrel vaulted nave pointing East to West.
Next to the mosque is the Dar al-Yund (army headquarters) which consists of a cruciform basilical hall with triple-arched arcades and a ramp leading out on to the parade ground.
In contrast to a traditional basilica, which lets in light through a clerestory in the upper part of the nave, a hall church is lit through windowed side walls typically spanning the full height of the interior.
Italy
The Gothic architecture of Italy had a classical basis, characterized by vast spans with simple arches on a basilican plan. A notable example of Italian Gothic is Milan Cathedral.
BasementLowest, subordinate storey; hence the lowest part of a classical elevation, below the piano nobile or principal storey.BasilicaA Roman public hall; hence an aisled building, especially a church, with a clerestory, i.e.
(round) temple set in the courtyard of San Pietro in Montorio; a series of private palaces including the so-called House of Raphael (destroyed in the 17th century); and, most notable of all, the design (1506?) for the new Saint Peter's Basilica.
Basilica - In Roman and early Christian architecture, a rectangular building supported internally with double colonnades and with a semicircular apse at one end.
This is typical of Romanesque churches that were built as houses of worship as well as the "fortress" to keep them safe from intruding armies and bandits. The church is in a basilica plan with side aisles.
and was raised above the level of the Forum on a stepped platform. In the central nave, sat the Tribunal of 180 judges. In front of the basilica, there are several large bases on which stood honorary columns dedicated to famous people.
 See also: Architecture, Church, Roman, House, Cathedra
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