The Carolingian Revival of Early Christian Architecture
1942; College Art Association; Volume: 24; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00043079.1942.11408953
ISSN1559-6478
Autores Tópico(s)Classical Studies and Legal History
ResumoSome thirty years ago the development of ecclesiastical architecture from late Antiquity to the Romanesque period seemed fairly well established. The consensus of opinion was that it had evolved according to the following pattern: in the beginning there was the Early Christian basilica, and this was of the type represented in Rome by Old St. Peter's or St. Paul's—an atrium, surrounded by porticoes, was followed by a colonnaded nave with four side aisles; this led to a long narrow transept which in turn was terminated by a semicircular apse. This T-type basilica was thought to have survived in Italy from the fourth to the twelfth century; the lack of the transept and of two of the four aisles was considered merely a reduction of the basic type. From Italy the scheme was supposed to have spread all over Europe from the fifth century on, and to have undergone continuous transformation until in the eleventh century, Romanesque architecture evolved from it.1
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