Basilica Plan and Central -Plan Churches · Reconstruction Drawing of Old Saint Peter’s Basilica Plan and Section, Church of Sta. Constanza, Rome c. 350 Plan and Section of the

JEWISH, EARLY CHRISTIAN, AND BYZANTINE ART

ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS

Basilica Plan and Central-Plan Churches

Reconstruction Drawing of Old Saint Peter’s Basilica

Plan and Section, Church of Sta. Constanza, Rome c. 350

Plan and Section of the Church of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul c. 532-537

Pendentives and Squinches

Plan and Cutaway Drawing, Church of S. Vitale, Ravenna (under construction c520, consecrated 547,

mosaics c. 546-548)

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Multiple-Dome Church Plans

CHRISTIAN SYMBOLISM- MYTH AND RELIGION