Basilica : A term sometimes used in reference to a cathedral for ceremonial reasons, although traditionally denoting an earlier form of structure.
Basilica - Originally a type of public building used as a hall of justice and commerce. Basilicas had a rectangular plan on an east west axis containing one to three aisles.
Basilica
In Roman architecture, a rectangular public building, entered on one of the long sides. In Christian architecture, a church loosely based on the Roman design, but entered on one of the short ends, with an apse at the other end.
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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 (Cross) Plan
The first Christian Churches generally followed the central plan in the east (influenced by Roman temples, such as the Pantheon), ...
basilica - In architecture, a type of public building erected in ancient Rome as a hall of justice and commerce.
Also see basilica, compass rose, crossing, Greek cross, labyrinth, and square schematization.
The Rococo Basilica at Ottobeuren (Bavaria): architectural spaces flow together and swarm with life ...
basilica a church building, usually facing east, with a tall main nave and two or four side aisles of lesser height. There may also be a transept between the nave and the choir, which is reserved for the clergy.
Following his notable successes in the competitions for the facade of the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano (1732) and the facade of Palazzo Poli behind the Trevi Fountain, Pope Clement XII sent him to the Marche to buildsome papal projects.
In 1546 the relatively inexperienced architect won the commission to reface the Vicentine town hall, since known as the Basilica, for which ideas by the much better-known Giulio Romano and Sanmicheli had been rejected.
The individual parts of the early Christian basilica survived the longest; but the whole aspect of the structure very quickly changed.
Maria Gloriosa dei Frari , the most important Venice church after the Basilica of St. Mark's, is Titians exquisite Pesaro Madonna (1518). It is in this masterpiece that one first recognizes the dramatic action which Titian brought to Venetian art.
The finest Byzantine work of this period was actually outside the Empire: the Basilica of St Mark in Venice, begun in 1063.
At about the same time, Michelangelo also did the marble Pieta (1498-1500), still in its original place in Saint Peter's Basilica.
Interior showing the nave and altar of the basilica of Sant'Angelo in Formia, Italy. This Romanesque basilica was built in AD 925 on the ruins of an ancient temple.
Mark's Basilica in Venice. He also painted a Last Supper fresco in the refectory of Sant Apollonia in Florence. Some critics believe that the last supper fresco represents some of his best art work.
transept: A rectangular area which cuts across the main axis of a basilica-type building and projects beyond it.
The ancient, circular chapel of Santa Maria della Febbre stands beside the famous Vatican obelisk that, in 1586, was moved in front of Saint Peter’s basilica.
When the window openings were large, as was the case in basilicas and other public buildings, and even in houses, the pieces of glass were, doubtless, fixed in pierced slabs of marble or in frames of wood or bronze.
talents are exemplified by the tomb of Julius II (c.1510-15), San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome; the Medici Chapel (1519-34), Florence; the SISTINE CHAPEL ceiling (1508-12) and Last Judgment (1536-41), Rome; and the cupola of SAINT PETER's BASILICA (begun ...
All Saints Chapel in the Cathedral Basilica of St. ... Example of a cup figuring a tortise. ... For beauty as a characteristic of a persons appearance, see Physical attractiveness. ...
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