The Christian Basilica Oct. 4, 2011

Introduction The Christian Basilica : A Building Type

Old St. Peters, Rome, begun c

Trinity Church Wall St. NYC, 1846 Trinity Church, Newport RI, 1725

Parthenon, Athens Greece, B.C.E. Callicrates, Ictinus and Phidias

Pantheon, Rome, c

Icon of Christ, Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai, Egypt, 6 th century CE

Dura Europos, Christian Baptistery, before 256 C.E.

I. Origin of the Christian Basilica

Old St. Peters, Rome, begun c

Emperor Constantine Ruled Edict of Milan, 313 legalized Christianity Built churches in Rome, and on sites associated with Christ in Judea Founded Constantinople, (Byzantium, Istanbul), 330

Arch of Constantine, Rome

Old St. Peters, Rome, begun c

St. Peter’s Rome, 1505 and later

Forum of Trajan, Rome, Plan of Old St. Peter’s church, c. 320

Basilica Ulpia, Forum of Trajan, Rome, Plan of Old St. Peter’s church, c. 320

Domes of the church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, 326

First century grave within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem

Church of the Holy Sepulcher, plan and reconstruction of the Constantinian church, ca. 325

Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome Italy, ca C.E.

II. The Romanesque Monastic Church

Saint-Sernin, Toulouse, c Old St. Peter’s church, c. 320

Santa Sabina, Rome, Saint-Sernin, Toulouse, c

Plan, Saint-Sernin, Toulouse, c East end with radiating chapels, Saint-Sernin, Toulouse, c

Saint-Sernin, Toulouse, c Saint Foy, reliquary statue, 10 th -11 th century

Plan of the monastery of St. Gall, Switzerland, c. 820

Reconstructed view from the plan of the Monastery of St. Gall, from David Talbot Rice (Ed.), The Dark Ages, The Making of European Civilization, London 1965

Cluny--Cluniac Fontenay-Cistercian

Remains of Cluny III,

Berzé-la-Ville, wall painting Saint Peter from Cluny

Fontenay, Monastery Church,

III. The Gothic Cathedral

Notre Dame, Amiens, c

Old St. Peter’s church, c. 320

Saint-Sernin, Toulouse, c

East end, St. Eitenne, Beauvais, and after 1284 East end with radiating chapels, Saint- Sernin, Toulouse, c

Gothic Characteristics Ribbed groin vaulting Flying butttresses Pointed (broken) arches Continuous membering Stained glass, diaphanous wall

Notre Dame, Chartres,

View of the vaults, Notre Dame, Amiens, c

Ribbed groin vault

Notre Dame, Chartres,

Section of the choir, Notre Dame, Amiens,

Notre Dame, Amiens, c

Stained glass, Notre Dame, Reims,

Window with Virgin and Child, Notre Dame Chartres, c. 1230

Old St. Peter’s church, c. 320