Late Antique Identification + Vocabulary

Rome, Italy

Late Antique Europe

Excavated tufa and fresco

Rome, Italy

Late Antique Europe

Brick and stone, wooden roof

a passageway around the apse or altar of a church

the endpoint of a church where the altar is located

a courtyard in a Roman house or before a Christian church

a church with a long nave whose focus is the apse; so-called because it is designed along an axis

in Christian architecture, an axially planned church with a long nave, side aisles, and an apse for the altar

an underground passageway used for burial

a church having a circular plan with the altar in the middle

the third, or window story of a church

in architecture, a sunken panel in a ceiling

small underground rooms in catacombs serving as mortuary chapels

the first four books in the New Testament that chronicle the life of Jesus

openings in the walls of catacombs to receive the dead

a crescent-shaped space, sometimes over a doorway, that contains sculpture or painting

the closest part of the atrium to the basilica, it serves as a vestibule, or lobby, of a church

the main aisle of a church

a figure with its hands raised in prayer

in art history, the reuse of architectural or sculptural pieces in buildings generally different from their original contexts

an aisle in a church perpendicular to the nave, where the clergy originally stood