Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine

Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine

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Basilica Nova

Bugbee, Gordon (photograph)

Single Built Works

Italy (nation)

Rome (inhabited place)

Imperial (Roman)

basilicas

groined vaults

coffered ceilings

View of the three bays with groin vaults and coffered ceilings of the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine the largest building in the Roman Forum. "This huge basilica, near the Arch of Titus was begun by Maxentius and completed by Constantine. This administrative building was 300 feet long and 215 feet wide with barrel-vaulted side aisles with coffered ceilings. These vaults acted as buttresses for the central nave, 114 feet high, covered with groin vaults. The interior was well-lit with clerestory areas over the side walls. The whole was constructed of brick-faced concrete. Constantine commissioned a 30 foot portrait of himself to be placed in the original apse. Today only the north aisle consisting of three barrel-vaulted compartments still exists. The grand apse was added by Constantine to face the new entrance he added at the center of the long south side,"--by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University.

concrete

300 feet long, 215 feet wide

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