Santa Costanza

Title

Santa Costanza

Date

ca. 350

Identifier

7641

Work Type

Single Built Works

Work Location

Italy (nation)
Rome (inhabited place)

Style/Period

Early Christian

Subject

mausoleums
columns (architectural elements)
Corinthian capitals

Description

View of Corinthian columns supporting the dome inside the Santa Costanza in Rome, Italy. "Although this building was consecrated as a church in 1256, it began as a mausoleum for Constantine's daughter, Constantia (also known as Constantina or Costanza), who died in 354 AD.. The plan is circular, borrowing from the antique tradition of funerary architecture ... There is a narthex or porch, which leads to the central domed space, which is surrounded by a barrel-vaulted ambulatory ... Twelve pairs of coupled Corinthian columns define the central space and support the dome,"--by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University.

Reproduction Type

jpeg

ID Number

N1ITROM2-0350I2A1

Files

N1ITROM2-0350I2A1.jpg
Date Added
August 29, 2013
Collection
LTU Digital Images
Item Type
VRA Core
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Citation
“Santa Costanza,” LTU Digital Images, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ltuimagecollection.omeka.net/items/show/11013.