ARTH 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Great Palace Of Constantinople, Clerestory, Pendentive
11 Mar 2016
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Key turning point in architecture battle of the milvian bridge 312ce, unification of the. Key turning point in empire and architectural history edict of milan 313ce, allows for all religion to be practiced. New building type emerges, christian church the early christian era, where its" ideology becomes prominent. 330, moves capital to byzantium from rome, preferred name + nova roma, Old saint peter"s, rome, 318-22 one of the first christian basilica. Transept (martyrium): a giant architectural shrine adapted the basilica. Ciborium: a canopy, above a shrine, near the apse. Solomonic column: the 4 posts that hold up the canopy, twisted spiral: apollinare nuovo, ravenna, ca. 490. Campanile: a bell tower situated off to the side of the basilica/main part of the church. No transepts, only reinvented in the 9th century. Arcade: lower story, columns connected by arches not by an entablature. Variation of the corinthian capital, arch with coffers roman architecture. Basilica stays traditional however shift in ideology, its" purpose.
