Early Christian Architecture Flashcards
WHERE CHRISTIANITY STARTED
JUDEA ISRAEL)
2 EVANGELIST
ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL
_ WINDOWS FOR COLD AND _ FOR HOT CLIMATE
LARGE, SMALL
WHAT INSPIRED EARLY CHRISTIAN ARKI
ROMAN ART
UNIVERSAL RELIGION OF ROMAN EMPIRE
CHRISTIANITY
WHAT DOES CHRISTIANITY PROMOTED WHEN BECAME THE UNIVERSAL RELOGION
EQUALITY (POOR, CLASS, GENDER, NATIONALITY)
WHAT IS THE USE OF CHURCHES
WORSHIP ONLY
FIRST CHRISTIAN ROMAN EMPEROR
CONSTANTINE THE GREAT
CONSTANTINE CHANGED THE CAPITAL OF ROMAN EMPIRE FROM ROME TO _
CONSTANTINOPLE/BYZANTIUM
FOR WORSHIP, USUALLY BUILT WHERE PATRONS/ST. DIED
EARLY CHRISTIAN BASILICA
TO ADMIT LIGHT
CLERESTORY WINDOWS
EARLY CHRISTIAN BASILICA USED WHAT TYPE OF ROOF
TIMBER ROOF/QUEEN AND KING TRUSS
TO GIVE RICHNESS TO INTERIOR, FOR DECORATION ONLY AND NOT TO REPRESENT EVENTS FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT
MOSAIC
OPEN FORECOURT SURROUNDED BY ARCADES
ATRIUM
USED BY PENITENTS
NARTHEX
SEATING AREA FOR WORSHIPPERS
NAVE
AREA ON BOTH SIDES OD THE NAVE
AISLE
LOW SCREEN WALL ENCLOSING THE CHOIR
CANCELLI/CHANCEL
WHERE PRIEST READS OR DELIVERS HOMILY
AMBO/PULPIT
CANOPY ON THE ALTAR/ERECTED COLUMNS OVER THE ALTAR
BALDACHINO
RAISED PLATFORM ON THE ALTAR
BEMA
SIDE PROJECTIONS OF CHURCH
TRANSEPT
CIRCULAR TERMINATION OF THE CHURCH
APSE
PORTRAIT GLORIFYING THE KINGDOM OF GOD BEFORE APSE
ARCH OF TRIUMPH
WHERE THE PRIEST OFFICIATES THE MASS
ALTAR
SEPARATED BLDG FROM THE CHURCH, PLACE TO BAPTIZE
BAPTISERIES
WHEN CAN BE BAPTIZED
EASTER, PENTECOST, EPIPHANY
3 EXAMPLES OF BAPTISERY
BAPTISERY OF CONSTANTINE, BAPTISERY OF STA. MARIA MAGGIORE, NEIONIAN BAPTISERY
-BY SIXTUS III
-NATURAL SPRING
BAPTISERY OF CONSTANTINE
-OLDEST IN ITALIAN
-2ND LARGEST IN ITALY
BAPTISERY OF STA. MARIA MAGGIORE
-STARTED BY URSA, FINSHED BY NEONNE
-OLDEST IN RAVENNA
-OCTAGONAL
-CONTAINS SOME OF MOST BEAUTIFUL MOSAIC
NEONIAN BAPTISERY
2 TYPES OF TOMB
MONUMENTALTOMB AND CATACOMB
3 EXAMPLES OF MONUMENTAL TOMB
TOMB OF GALLA PLACIDIA
MAUSOLEUM OF STA. COSTANZA
TOMB OF THEODORIC
-CHRISTIAN’S OBJECTION TO CREMATION LED TO BUILDING OF _
-EXPRESSED FAITH IN _ AND _
- MONUMENTAL TOMBS
- IMORTALITY, MEMORIAL
BUILT FOR THE DAUGTHER OF EMPEROR THEODOSIOS I
TOMB OF GALLA PLACIDIA
BUILT FOR THE DAUGTHER OF CONSTANTINE, CONSTANTIA
MAUSOLEUM OF STA. COSTANZA
-FOR THEODORIC THE GREAT (KING OF ARIAN OSTROGOTHS)
-SYMBOL OF POWER
THEODORIC’S MAUSOLEUM/TOMB OF THEODORIC
NETWORKS OF SUBTERRANEAN CHAMBERS FOR BURIAL
CATACOMBS
CHAMBER FOR CORPSE
LOCULI
AD CATACUMBAS
AT THE HOLLOWS
3 EXAMPLES OF CATACOMBS
CATACOMB OF ST. CALIXTUS
CATACOMB OF ST. DOMITILLA
CATACOMB OF PRISCILLA
-CREMETAED THEIR DEAD
-SCARED OF GHOSTS
PAGANS
-LARGEST CATACOMB (19KM)
-FIRST OFFICIAL UNDERGROUND CEMETERY
CATACOMB OF ST. CALIXTUS
-2ND LARGEST (15KM)
-BEST PRESERVED IN ROME
CATACOMB OF ST. DOMITILLA
-3RD LARGEST (13KM)
-QUEEN OF CATACOMBS BECAUSE SOME OF MOST POPES WERE BURRIED THERE
CATACOMB OF PRISCILLA
9 EXAMPLES OF BASILICAN CHURCHES
OLD BASILICAN CHURCH OF ST. PETER
CHURCH OF NATIVITY
CHURCH OF HOLY SEPULCHER
STA. SABINA
ST. APOLLINAIRE NUOVO
ST APOLLINAIRE CLASSE
SANTO STEFANO ROTUNDO
ST. PAOLO FUORI LE MURA
TORCELLO CATHEDRAL
-BY CONSTANTINE
-30 YRS TO BUILT
-IN CIRCUS OF NERO
OLD BASILICAN CHURCH OF ST. PETER
T OT F
OLD BASILICA OF ST. PETER IS THE SAME AS ST. PETER CATHEDRAL TODAY
FALSE
-BY CONSTANTINE AND HIS MOTHER, STA. HELEN
-BIRTHPLACE OF JESUS
CHURCH OF NATIVITY
-HOLIEST CHRISTIAN SITE IN THE WORLD
-BY CONSTANTINE
-WHERE JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED
CHURCH OF HOLY SEPULCHER
AEDICULE
SHRINE TO SHELTER A HOLY OBJECT
-DEDICATED TO A NUN THAT WAS RICH BUT PURSUED NUN
-MOTHER CHURCH OF PREACHER/DOMINICAN ORDER
-BY PETER OF ILLYRIA
STA. SABINA
-HAS SIDE WALL MOSAICS
-RIGHT=MALE, LEFT=FEMALE
-BY THEODORIC
ST. APOLLINAIRE NUOVO
-BY ARCHBISHOP URSINUS
-EXCEPTIONAL MOSAICS AND MARBLES, IMPRESSIVE EXAMPLE OF EARLY CHRISTIAN BASILICA
ST APOLLINAIRE CLASSE
-LARGEST CIRCULAR CHURCH IN EXISTANCE
-ONE OF THE OLDEST
-BY POPE SIMPLICIUS
SANTO STEFANO ROTUNDO
-IN GRAVE OF ST. PAUL
-LARGEST BASILICA UNTUIL ST. PETER
-HAS CLOISTER
-OUTSIDE THE WALL
ST. PAOLO FUORI LE MURA
OPEN AREA IN ST. PAOLO FUOVI LE MURA SURROUNDED BY COLUMNS
CLOISTER
-HOUSES THE BEST MOSIC IN NORTH ITALY
-DEDICATED TO AGSUNTA
TORCELLO CATHEDRAL