AHIS 120gp Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Early Christian Art And Architecture, Santa Pudenziana, Christian Art
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10/4 lecture: early christian art and architecture (after the recognition of christianity. Could hold 14,000 worshippers in the middle area. Cathedral = where the bishop"s chair is. Bishop = the leader of the church of a certain area. Built on the spot where peter was buried in the 1st century. Size is so large because there were a lot of pilgrims who came here to worship near the body of peter. Apse - marks where peter"s body was. Transept - a large space illuminated with a lot of windows, purpose was for the funeral banquets where everyone came to celebrate peter"s death. Martyrium - peter as a martyr"s body is in this space. Church was destroyed, so we have to look at drawings of it instead. Adopted the windows adopted from the roman basilica. Nave - the main area where christian worship took place. Men on one side, women on another. Yellow arrow - where christ was crucified.
