Santa Costanza
![View of the mausoleum of Santa Costanza and the remaining wall of the Constantinian basilica (photo taken from its apse).](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Santa_Costanza_-_vista_dalla_basilica_costantiniana.jpg)
According to the traditional view, Santa Costanza was built around the reign of Constantine I as a mausoleum for his daughter Constantina, later also known as Constantia or Costanza, who died in AD 354. However, more recent excavations have called this date (and therefore the original purpose of the building) into question. Ultimately, Constantina's sarcophagus was housed here, but it may have been moved from an earlier location.
The mausoleum is of circular form with an ambulatory surrounding a central dome. The fabric of Santa Costanza survives in essentially its original form. Despite the loss of the coloured stone veneers of the walls, some damage to the mosaics and incorrect restoration, the building stands in excellent condition as a prime example of Early Christian art and architecture. The vaults of the apses and ambulatory display well preserved examples of Late Roman mosaics. A key component which is missing from the decorative scheme is the mosaic of the central dome. In the sixteenth century, watercolours were made of this central dome so the pictorial scheme can be hypothetically reconstructed. The large porphyry sarcophagus of either Constantina or her sister Helena has survived intact, and is now in the Vatican Museum – an object of great significance to the study of the art of Late Antiquity. Provided by Wikipedia
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441by Lucia Dominguez, Costanza Bonadonna, Pablo Forte, Pablo Forte, Paul Antony Jarvis, Raffaello Cioni, Leonardo Mingari, Donaldo Bran, Juan Esteban PanebiancoGet full text
Published 2020-01-01
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444by Michele Totaro, Tommaso Mariotti, Costanza Bisordi, Erica De Vita, Paola Valentini, Anna Laura Costa, Beatrice Casini, Gaetano Privitera, Angelo BaggianiGet full text
Published 2020-01-01
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445by Campione E, Paternò EJ, Costanza G, Diluvio L, Carboni I, Marino D, Favalli C, Chimenti S, Bianchi L, Orlandi AGet full text
Published 2015-02-01
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448by Alessandro Mattiello, Filip Pošćić, Guido Fellet, Costanza Zavalloni, Marta Fontana, Barbara Piani, Massimo Vischi, Fabiano Miceli, Rita Musetti, Luca MarchiolGet full text
Published 2016-08-01
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449by Irene Criscuoli, Giorgio Alberti, Silvia Baronti, Filippo Favilli, Cristina Martinez, Costanza Calzolari, Emanuela Pusceddu, Cornelia Rumpel, Roberto Viola, Franco MigliettaGet full text
Published 2014-01-01
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450by Reed George, Cranos Caroline, Rosal Milagros C, White Mary, Luckmann Roger, Costanza Mary E, Clark Robin, Sama Susan, Yood RobertGet full text
Published 2011-06-01
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451by Cristina Colarossi, Maria Carolina Picardo, Lorenzo Colarossi, Enrica Deiana, Costanza D'Agata, Corrado Fichera, Eleonora Aiello, Giorgio Giannone, Lorenzo MemeoGet full text
Published 2021-09-01
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452by Domenico Azzolino, Domenico Azzolino, Giulia Carla Immacolata Spolidoro, Edoardo Saporiti, Costanza Luchetti, Carlo Agostoni, Carlo Agostoni, Matteo Cesari, Matteo CesariGet full text
Published 2021-08-01
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454by Costanza Maria Zattra, Morgan Broggi, Silvia Schiavolin, Marco Schiariti, Francesco Acerbi, Silvia Esposito, Camilla de Laurentis, Giovanni Broggi, Paolo FerroliGet full text
Published 2021-06-01
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456by Alessandra Costanza, Michalina Radomska, Francesco Zenga, Andrea Amerio, Andrea Aguglia, Gianluca Serafini, Mario Amore, Isabella Berardelli, Yasutaka Ojio, Khoa D. NguyenGet full text
Published 2021-01-01
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458by Matteo Callegari, Matteo Callegari, Costanza Jucker, Marco Fusi, Marco Fusi, Maria Giovanna Leonardi, Daniele Daffonchio, Sara Borin, Sara Savoldelli, Elena CrottiGet full text
Published 2020-08-01
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459by Jacopo La Nasa, Patrizia Moretti, Eleonora Maniccia, Silvia Pizzimenti, Maria Perla Colombini, Costanza Miliani, Francesca Modugno, Paola Carnazza, Daphne De LucaGet full text
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460by Costanza Varesio, Martina Paola Zanaboni, Elisa Carlotta Salmin, Chiara Totaro, Martina Totaro, Elena Ballante, Ludovica Pasca, Pierangelo Veggiotti, Valentina De GiorgisGet full text
Published 2020-11-01
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