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LPLT, Ss. Giovanni e Paolo

Modern-day, outside image of the Basilica of Sts. John and Paul on the Caelian Hill in Rome (Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo al Celio). The…

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Christianity, Cities, Culture, Domestic Living, Domus, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Sacred Spaces, San Giovanni e Paolo, Urbanism

Ana Munk, Aerial Reconstruction of Ss. Giovanni e Paolo, With Positioning of Staircase Visible, 2009

This is the floor plan of Ss. Giovanni e Paolo, showing the improvised nature of the staircase landing and its overall positioning within the domus.

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Christianity, Cities, Culture, Domestic Living, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Medieval, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Sacred Spaces, San Giovanni e Paolo, Urbanism

Revised by Ana Munk and based on Colini 1944, Reconstructed Cross-Section of Martyrium in Staircase Landing, c. 385-410, 2009

This is an architectural rendering of the added landing in the stairs for the martyrium, built c. 385-410, by Pammachius and Paulina.

Tags: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, Cities, Domestic Living, Domus, Early Middle Ages, Fall of Rome, Italy, late antique, Late Antiquity, Martyrium, Medieval, Religion, roman empire, Rome, Sacred Spaces, Urbanism

Ana Munk, Mosaic Depicting Senator Pammachius Making An Offering, 2009

On the wall facing that of his wife, senator Pammachius was depicted on the left side of the shrine. In another show of private, domestic devotion to…

Ana Munk, Apis Bull Mosaic, Ss. Giovanni e Paolo, Caelian Hill, Rome, 2009

Like the Mosaic of the Four Seasons, this mosaic depicting most likely the popular cult of the Romanized Apis Bull was not whitewashed when…

Ana Munk, Mosaic Depicting Paulina and possibly Rufina, her younger sister, 2009

Paulina, as matriarch of the household and probably motivator behind the construction of this private space, beckons the observer to worship with her…

Ana Munk, Dance of the Four Seasons Mosaic, Ss. Giovanni e Paolo, Caelian Hill, Rome, 2009

Created in the late 3rd century, after the consolidation of this domus but before the arrival of the pious senator Pammachius and his wife, this…

Ana Munk, Staircase Martyrium in Ss. Giovanni e Paolo, Caelian Hill, Rome, 2009

This image is the front-facing view of the martyrium built in the late 4th century by Pammachius and Paulina at the top of a renovated landing of…

Laura & Alessandro, Insula Dianae in Ostia, Italy, Flickr, 16 February 2009

An image of the Insula Dianae, an example of insula construction dating to the second century CE within Ostia.

Simon Mannweiler, The Dome of the Rock, Wikimedia Commons, 11 December 2007

Exterior shot of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Israel.

Tags: Islam, Jerusalem, Temple Mount, Umayyad