At the angles of basilicasand Imperial edifices huge torches were aflare, and cressets flaming in every street.
To turn the porticoes of basilicas into granaries, and the churches into stables.
It is difficult to explain why the Goths, confessed and even bigoted Christians (Arians) as they were, and full of respect for the basilicas of S.
There are two or threebasilicas built, or rather excavated, entirely under ground.
Thus, none of the four or five hundred volumes on the topography of ancient Rome speaks of the basilicas raised by Constantine; of the church of S.
The damage done to the catacombs by the builders of these sunken basilicas is incalculable.
Valentine's; in other cases it was sunk so deep in the heart of the hill that only the roof and the upper tier of windows were seen above the ground, as in the basilicas of S.
How a youth of his age got to court, and was heard and praised by the great Emperor Henry III.
After a day or two of discussion this prelate fled, and was finally excommunicated.
And so the long line of prelates was gone through with many disastrous consequences as the days ran on.
This was an opportunity for isolating the Forum, and basilicas and temples were raised in succession along its sides, which in their turn were partly destroyed in the fire of Nero.
The sisterbasilicas look at each other, and at Sta.
In England basilicas remain in part at Silchester (fig.
The chief difference between the Eastern and Roman basilicas is in the galleries.
Croce, the existing Christian basilicas were erected from the ground for their sacred purpose.
We know that to have been the case with the basilicas of S.
We should naturally look in that direction for the prototypes of the Roman basilicas, but as a fact we are not informed of any very early basilicas in these cities.
Later basilicas might vary in architectural scheme, while affording the same sort of accommodation as the older ones.
Though inferior in size, and later in date than most of the basilicas already mentioned, that of S.
A comparison of the plans of existing basilicas shows considerable variety in form.
Agnese deserve particular notice, as exhibiting galleries corresponding to those of the civil basilicas and to the later triforium, carried above the aisles and returned across the entrance end.
The number of public basilicas we read of at Rome alone amounts to about a score, while many private basilicas, for business or recreation, must also have existed, that in the palace of Domitian on the Palatine being the best known.
There being no such quarry of ready-worked materials at Ravenna, the noble basilicas of that city are free from these defects, and exhibit greater unity of design and harmony of proportions.
Of the three-aisled basilicas the best example is the Liberian or S.
Moreover, heathen temples were occasionally converted into churches, whilst basilicas were sometimes used for Christian services just as they were.
After Constantine the Great had transformed numerous basilicas into churches, the name and style of architecture became associated with the latter.
The basilicas consisted of a central nave and two side ones, divided from the former by columns.
At first the Christians suffered, and many were martyred in the Umbrian rivers, but only to triumph later when Roman Assisi soon vanished and Christian basilicas were built on the site of pagan temples.
Then temple rose by temple, and grand basilicas reared their height by the Sacred Way; the gold of the earth poured in and Art was queen and mistress of the age.
To them can be traced the building of those fine Lombard Basilicas of S.
Mr. Micklethwaite states that "the doorway under the tower of the church at Monkswearmouth in Durham was doubtless a part of the church which Benedict Biscop erected there in the seventh century in imitation of the Basilicas in Rome.
The roof was of wood, as in similar basilicas elsewhere.
The proportion of length to breadth is greater than is usual in basilicas of the West, and an indication of the tendency to assume the square plan which Byzantine architecture so strongly manifests.
With the revival of religious zeal and the accession of strength the Church flourished, basilicas and convents were multiplied, solemnities increased in number and splendor, and with other liturgic elements the chant expanded.
Several new churches and basilicas were in course of erection, and even some of the heathen temples were being converted so as to suit the worship of the Christians.
In many of the basilicas statues which he recognised as those of Isis, or some other heathen goddess, now generally clothed in rich garments, held most prominent places.
New basilicas and other monuments were erected, and Byzantine Carthage recovered for a century the prosperity of the Roman city.
Many examples of basilicaswith eastern nave and western choir still survive in Rome, Dalmatia, and Istria.
In the design of the Gothic throne there is no reminiscence whatever of the marble chairs of the Early Christian basilicas and the Pagan Thermae.
The western position so postulated for the High altar and the throne was originally that of most of the Early Christian basilicas at Rome, in particular the ancient basilica of St Peter.
Thus in general the arrangement corresponded fairly well with that of other basilicas except that, owing to the lack of a clerestory, the roof of the main hall was not much if any higher than that of the corridor.
Vitruvius himself at Fano, and the architects of other basilicas the remains of which have been discovered, did not hesitate to depart from it.
Of what use were basilicas to the Christians later?
Some of these basilicaswere used as Christian churches when the Romans accepted the Christian religion.
The Christians of the fourth and fifth centuries often obtained from favouring emperors leave to turn these basilicas into churches.
The basilicas of Pagan Rome were long rectangular buildings, divided along their whole length sometimes by two, not seldom by four, lines of columns, and serving as halls or courts of justice.
The basilicas were models of everything that could be desired.
The lightness, spaciousness, and decorative elegance of thebasilicas were here exchanged for a sombre and massive dignity severe in its plainness.
Constantine led the way in architecture, endowing Bethlehem and Jerusalem with splendid churches, and his new capital on the Bosphorus with the first of the three historic basilicas dedicated to the Holy Wisdom (Hagia Sophia).
In Rome the campaniles which accompany many of the mediæval basilicas are square and pierced with many windows.
They were basilicas in plan, with timber ceilings and high clearstories on columnar arcades.
A few basilicas were built with side-aisles, in two stories, as in S.
For basilicas and domical churches of 6th-12th centuries see pp.
IN SYRIA AND THE EAST: basilicas of the Nativity at Bethlehem, of the Sepulchre and of the Ascension at Jerusalem; also polygonal church on Temple platform; these all of 4th century.
Meeting often in the private basilicas of wealthy converts, and finding these, and still more the great public basilicas, suited to the requirements of their worship, they early began to build in imitation of these edifices.
Salonica counts a number of basilicas and several domical churches.
The Holy Mysteries had been celebrated in private houses and basilicas on wooden tables, sometimes square, but often round, and with three legs.
The early basilicas of Rome also took their titles from the families that surrendered their halls for Christian worship.
In fact, the basilica at Silchester recalls the plans of the earlybasilicas of north Africa more closely than those of the basilicas of Rome; while it has, unlike them, the Roman feature of the western apse.
It is still often said that the Christian basilicas were merely adaptations of such buildings to sacred purposes.
In common with other early basilicasin Rome, and in other parts of western Europe, the entrance was at the east, and the altar at the west end, so that the celebrant faced the congregation during the divine office.
The transept, even in Rome, was an exceptional arrangement, and does not appear in the basilicas of Ravenna.
The open galleries, which in some of the earliest Christian basilicas at Rome form an upper story to the aisles, recall the galleries above the colonnades which surrounded the central hall of some of the larger secular basilicas.
Of the basilicas which existed before the time of Justinian, there are two impressive examples remaining.
The apse is lighted by three great windows, a feature never seen in Roman basilicastill much later.
It was from these private basilicas that the first Christian churches were architecturally developed.
Thus the Basilica Porcia did not differ in principle from the early Christian church, and the similarity appears also in the other basilicas of the Roman republic, all of which had their front upon the smaller side.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "basilicas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
