Art History 106 - Images & Ideas
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Vaults at work: the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine (Rome, 4th century AD) I
 

The main area of this building was covered with three huge groin vaults, now destroyed, which were buttressed with barrel vaults on either side. One side survives today.
 
 

above general view of the Basilica

above detail: barrel vault
 

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© Elizabeth Rankin and Amanda Skeet, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland, 2004.