Basilica Floor Plan Labeled

Light double lines in perimeter walls indicate glazed windows.

Basilica floor plan labeled. The portico the portico is larger than many churches and has many features. Home square practical info library grottoes necropolis altars monuments colonnade saints mass. Floor plan of the basilica of maxentius and constantine. Basilica di santa sabina all aventino is a historic church on the aventine hill in rome italy it is a titular minor basilica and mother church of the roman catholic order of preachers better known as the dominicans.

By convention ecclesiastical floorplans are shown map fashion with north to the top and the. Dashed lines show the ribs of the vaulting overhead. Map of the grottoes below st peter s basilica. The holy door far right giotto s navicella over exit to square john xxiii s coat of arms floor.

The word basilica is latin which was taken from the greek basiliké stoà. It was the product of monastic expansion. It was originally introduced by the catholic church particularly by the jesuits as a means to combat the reformation and the protestant church with a new architecture that inspired surprise and awe. In churches the clerestory windows above the roofs of the side aisles permit direct illumination of the nave.

Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in italy in the early 17th century and gradually spread across europe. Larger churches were needed to accommodate numerous monks and priests as well as the pilgrims who came to view saints relics. In the early christian basilica the nave elevation usually is composed of a nave colonnade or arcade and clerestory. It gradually passed out of use in the eastern church however eclipsed by the radial plan on which the emperor justinian i constructed the domed cathedral of hagia sophia at constantinople.

The basilica plan with its nave aisles and apse remained the basis for church building in the western church. It reached its peak in the high baroque. The basilica of saint sabina latin. Floorplan map of st peter s basilica.

In western ecclesiastical architecture a cathedral diagram is a floor plan showing the sections of walls and piers giving an idea of the profiles of their columns and ribbing. Santa sabina is the oldest extant roman basilica in rome that preserves its original colonnaded. A roman catholic church that has been given the right to use that name by the pope only some large important churches have this right. 10 clerestory a clear story i e.

Nowadays the word is used in three ways. The apse windows are in fact smaller than the side windows producing an optical illusion of still greater size and distance. Floorplan map 1 facade 2 charlemagne equestrian statue 3 portico atrium 4 giotto s mosaic of the navicella 5 constantine equestrian statue 6 door of. Romanesque architecture was current in europe from the mid 11th century to the advent of gothic architecture.

Basilica sanctae sabinae italian.