The central nave of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. (Massimo Berruti/ The New York Times) It was easier to decode the fifth century mosaic cycle on the triumphal arch at the end of ...

So basically, we got a huge piece of Roman wall, which represents part of the structure for the nave of this basilica, the central part of this town hall." Jackson says the Roman building known as ...

Speyer Cathedral, a basilica with four towers and two domes ... by the symmetrical and singular placement of the towers which frame the mass formed by the nave and the transept. Under Henry IV ...

A Roman basilica was a large public building used for administrative, legal, and commercial activities. Typically featuring a rectangular layout with columns and a central hall (nave), it served ...

Among its Christian monuments are fine churches, some built on the Greek cross plan and others on the three-nave basilica plan. Constructed over a long period, from the 4th to the 15th century, they ...