Early Christian Architecture and Sculpture. Basilicas. Plan of the old Church of St. Peter at Rome, built under Constantine the Great.

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Title/Description: (Old) St. Peter’s Basilica
View Description: : plan
Original Caption: Early Christian Architecture and Sculpture. Basilicas. Plan of the old Church of St. Peter at Rome, built under Constantine the Great.
Location: Vatican, Rome, Italy
Category: Early Christian
Style Period: Early Christian
Subject: Rome--Vatican--Old S. Peter’s
Date: ca. 320-327/333
Dimensions: 12.55 x 21.3 cm.
Source: Architecture, Sculpture, and the Industrial Arts Among the Nations of Antiquity / a series of illustrations arranged chronologically, and forming an atlas, to be used in connection with any work on the history of art. Authorized American edition, published under the supervision of S. R. Koehler. Boston: L. Prang and Company, 1879. Series II.
Type: plan
Notes: The dotted lines indicate the site of the Circus of Nero.
Page Plate Figure: Plate 44, figure 1
File ID: Prang44_1
Catalog Info Source: Allan T. Kohl

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Collection: Historic Illustrations of Art and Architecture
Image Size: 2969 x 5034
File Size: 2 MB
Record: Prang44_1
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Full citation: "Early Christian Architecture and Sculpture. Basilicas. Plan of the old Church of St. Peter at Rome, built under Constantine the Great." In the digital collection Historic Illustrations of Art and Architecture. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/hiaaic/x-prang44-und-1/prang44_1. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2025.