Basilica · Italy · Partial ruin
Basilica of Maxentius
The Basilica of Maxentius was a vast Roman civic basilica on the north side of the Roman Forum, begun under Maxentius and completed in 312. It featured a very large central nave covered by groin vaults, flanking aisles with barrel vaults, and a western apse that held a colossal statue of Constantine.
First raised
AD 312
Its prime
AD 312
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in AD 312
What Basilica of Maxentius looked like in its prime.
A colossal whitewashed rectangular mass on a raised concrete platform, its central nave spanning roughly 80 by 25 metres beneath three immense groin vaults terminating in a western apse. Gigantic semi-circular arches pierce the long façades, with a tetrastyle porch on the south face and a projecting arcade along the east. Marble columns (eight at the nave corners) and a folded roof system occupied the interior; flanking aisles were covered by perpendicular barrel vaults with coffering.
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8 places to explore in AD 312.
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