HISTART 2001 Study Guide - Final Guide: Barrel Vault, Suger, On The Trinity

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: History of Art
• Course: HISTART 2001
• Professor: Karl Whittington

Document Summary

Lecture 10/12/16 old st. peter"s (destroyed), rome, begun ca. Capable of housing 3000-4000 worshippers at a time. Combination of assembly hall, temple, and private house. Corinthian columns of the nave focused attention on the apse, which framed the altar. Plan of the building symbolizes the cross. Exterior of building was relatively plain, inside was elaborately decorated. This plain, anti-monumental treatment of the exterior gives way to the utmost richness as we enter the church (fig. Here, having left the everyday world behind us, we find ourselves in a shimmering realm of light and color where precious marble surfaces and the brilliant glitter of mosaics evoke the spiritual splendor of the kingdom of god. Central-plan building: building"s parts are of equal/almost equal dimensions around the center. Unlike pagan basilicas, which sometimes had doorways on one long side, opening onto an aisle, all early christian basilicas had a pronounced longitudinal axis.