Early Christian Architecture Monuments


ROME
4th century; St. Peter's, Sta. Costanza, 330; Baptistery of St. John Lateran, 330; Sta. Pudentiana, 335 (rebuilt 1598); tomb of St. Helena; St. Paul's beyond the Walls, 386 (burned 1823, rebuilt late 19th century); St. John Lateran (wholly remodelled in modern times). 5th century: Sta. Sabina, 425; Sta. Maria Maggiore, 432; S. Pietro in Vincoli, 442 (greatly altered in modern times); San Stefano Rotondo. 6th century: S. Lorenzo, 580 (the older portion in two stories); SS. Cosmo e Damiano. 7th century: Sta. Agnese, 625; S. Giorgio in Velabro, 682. 8th century: Sta. Maria in Cosmedin; S. Crisogono. 9th century: S. Nereo ed Achilleo; Sta. Prassede; Sta. Maria in Dominica. 12th and 13th centuries: S. Clemente, 1108; Sta. Maria in Trastevere; S. Lorenzo (nave); Sta. Maria in Ara Coeli.
RAVENNA
Baptistery of S. John, 400; S. Francesco; S. Giovanni Evangelista, 425; Sta. Agata, 430; S. Giovanni Battista, 439; tomb of Galla Placidia, 450; S. Apollinare Nuovo, 500-520; S. Apollinare in Classe, 538; St. Victor; Sta. Maria in Cosmedin (the Arian Baptistery); tomb of Theodoric (Sta. Maria della Rotonda, a decagonal two-storied mausoleum, with a low dome cut from a single stone 36 feet in diameter), 530-540.
ITALY IN GENERAL, including ISTRIA
Basilica at Parenzo, 540 and Pola (Istria); at Grado, 580; cathedral and Sta. Fosca at Torcello, 640-700; at Naples, Sta. Restituta, perhaps Sta. Angeli, Perugia, 7th century; others, mostly of 10th-13th centuries, at Murano near Venice, at Florence (S. Miniato), Spoleto, Toscanella, etc.; baptisteries at Asti, Florence, Nocera dei Pagani, and other places.
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 the 4th century. Basilicas at Bakouzah, Hass, Kelat Seman, Kalb Louzeh, Rouheiha, Tourmanin, etc.; circular churches, tombs, and baptisteries at Bozrah, Ezra, Hass, Kelat Seman, Rouheiha, etc.; all these 4th-8th centuries. Golden church at Antioch 6th century. Churches at Constantinople (Holy Wisdom, St. John Studius, etc.), Hierapolis, Pergamus, and Thessalonica (St. Demetrius, St. George, "Eski Djuma"); in Egypt and Nubia (Djemla, Announa, Ibreem, Siotu, etc.); at Orléansville in Algeria. (For churches, etc., of the 8th-10th centuries in the West)

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