TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holloway,R.Ross
TI  - Constantine & Rome
SN  - 9780300129717 (electronic bk.)
AV  - NA5620.A1 H65 2004eb
U1  - 722/.7 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Constantine
KW  - Constantin
KW  - Architecture, Early Christian
KW  - Italy
KW  - Rome
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Christianity and art
KW  - Architecture paléochrétienne
KW  - Italie
KW  - Christianisme et art
KW  - ARCHITECTURE
KW  - History
KW  - Prehistoric & Primitive
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Bouwprojecten
KW  - gtt
KW  - Monumenten
KW  - Christendom
KW  - Rome (Italy)
KW  - Buildings, structures, etc
KW  - Rome (Italie)
KW  - Constructions
KW  - ძველი რომის რელიგიური არქიტექტურა
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-186) and index; Constantine and the Christians -- The Arches -- Basilicas, baptistry, and burial -- The Tomb of St. Peter
N2  - Constantine the Great (285-337) played a crucial role in mediating between the pagan, imperial past of the city of Rome, which he conquered in 312, and its future as a Christian capital. In this learned and highly readable book, Ross Holloway examines Constantine's remarkable building programme in Rome. Holloway begins by examining the Christian Church in the period before the Peace of 313, when Constantine and his co-emperor Licinius ended the persecution of the Christians. He then focuses on the structure, style, and significance of important monuments: the Arch of Constantine and the two great Christian basilicas, St. John's in the Lateran and St. Peter's, as well as the imperial mausoleum at Tor Pignatara. In a final chapter Holloway advances a new interpretation of the archaeology of the Tomb of St. Peter beneath the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica. The tomb, he concludes, was not the original resting place of the remains venerated as those of the Apostle but was created only in 251 by Pope Cornelius. Drawing on the most up-to-date archaeological evidence, he describes a cityscape that was at once Christian and pagan, mirroring the personality of its ruler
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