ARCH&UD 10A Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Early Christian Art And Architecture, Anzio, Roman Kingdom

• School: UCLA
• Department: Architecture and Urban Design
• Course: ARCH&UD 10A
• Professor: Gary Fox

Document Summary

117 ad: rome has peaked in its geography. Walls are pulled down: semi-covert worship of this new religious system. Christianity was allowed to come out of the underground at 313 ce. This is was prompts him to convert to christianity. Militaristic value to this religious system as the myth goes in this context. --he legalized christianity but did convert until his final days. It is of doubt whether he understood christianity. Vast proliferation of christian sites occurring in sight. Antium: a shifting of the roman power to the east. Basilica of maxentius and constantine: built by the (cid:28678)(cid:28660)(cid:28672)(cid:28664) (cid:28675)(cid:28664)(cid:28677)(cid:28678)(cid:28674)(cid:28673). (cid:28636)(cid:28679)"(cid:28678) (cid:28660) (cid:28673)(cid:28664)(cid:28682) (cid:28661)(cid:28680)(cid:28668)(cid:28671)(cid:28663)(cid:28668)(cid:28673)(cid:28666) type. Fragments of constantine: it sat in the basilica, despite its open-ended program. Basilica: rectangular hall with double colonnade and semicircular. This form became the later christina church. (cid:28611)(cid:28640)(cid:28632) (cid:28615)(cid:28648). (cid:28612)(cid:28633)(cid:28648)(cid:28633)(cid:28646)"(cid:28647) ba(cid:28647)i(cid:28640)i(cid:28631)a i(cid:28642) (cid:28614)(cid:28643)(cid:28641)(cid:28633): a major center of christianity around 360 ce. Construction begun by the order of constantine, the key patron of this project.