Book contents
- The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600
- British School at Rome Studies
- The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Lateran Basilica to 1600
- 2 The Evolution of the Lateran: From the Domus to the Episcopal Complex
- 3 At the Foot of the Lateran Hill, from Via Sannio to Viale Ipponio: Archaeological Investigations Prior to the Construction of Metro Line C
- 4 Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey in the Saint John Lateran Basilica Complex
- 5 The First Residential Phases of the Lateran Area and a Hypothesis to Explain the So-Called Trapezoidal Building
- 6 The Castra Nova and the Severan Transformation of Rome
- 7 Andrea Busiri Vici and the Excavations of 1876: A Reassessment of the Archaeological Evidence
- 8 Visualising the Constantinian Basilica
- 9 Constantine’s Spolia: A Set of Columns for San Giovanni in Laterano and the Arch of Constantine in Rome
- 10 The Constantinian Basilica in the Early Medieval Liber Pontificalis
- 11 The Lateran Baptistery in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries: New Certainties and Unresolved Questions
- 12 The Nymphaeum of Pope Hilarus
- 13 Examples of Medieval Construction Techniques in the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano
- 14 The Medieval Portico of Saint John Lateran
- 15 MATER ET CAPUT OMNIUM ECCLESIARUM: Visual Strategies in the Rivalry between San Giovanni in Laterano and San Pietro in Vaticano
- 16 The Remodelling of San Giovanni in Laterano by Pope Nicholas IV: Transept, Apse and Façade
- 17 Furtum Sacrilegum: The ‘Holy Heads’ of Peter and Paul and Their Reliquaries in the Lateran
- 18 Reconsidering the Traces of Gentile da Fabriano and Pisanello in the Lateran Basilica
- 19 The Rite of the Reconciliation of Penitents at the Lateran Basilica
- 20 The New Passion Relics at the Lateran, Fifteenth to Sixteenth Centuries: A Translocated Sacred Topography
- 21 The East Façade of the Complex of Saint John Lateran in the Modern Era
- 22 The Book of Acts in the Constantinian Basilica: Cardinal Cesare Baronio and the Navata Clementina in San Giovanni in Laterano
- Bibliography
- Index
13 - Examples of Medieval Construction Techniques in the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano
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Book contents
- The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600
- British School at Rome Studies
- The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Lateran Basilica to 1600
- 2 The Evolution of the Lateran: From the Domus to the Episcopal Complex
- 3 At the Foot of the Lateran Hill, from Via Sannio to Viale Ipponio: Archaeological Investigations Prior to the Construction of Metro Line C
- 4 Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey in the Saint John Lateran Basilica Complex
- 5 The First Residential Phases of the Lateran Area and a Hypothesis to Explain the So-Called Trapezoidal Building
- 6 The Castra Nova and the Severan Transformation of Rome
- 7 Andrea Busiri Vici and the Excavations of 1876: A Reassessment of the Archaeological Evidence
- 8 Visualising the Constantinian Basilica
- 9 Constantine’s Spolia: A Set of Columns for San Giovanni in Laterano and the Arch of Constantine in Rome
- 10 The Constantinian Basilica in the Early Medieval Liber Pontificalis
- 11 The Lateran Baptistery in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries: New Certainties and Unresolved Questions
- 12 The Nymphaeum of Pope Hilarus
- 13 Examples of Medieval Construction Techniques in the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano
- 14 The Medieval Portico of Saint John Lateran
- 15 MATER ET CAPUT OMNIUM ECCLESIARUM: Visual Strategies in the Rivalry between San Giovanni in Laterano and San Pietro in Vaticano
- 16 The Remodelling of San Giovanni in Laterano by Pope Nicholas IV: Transept, Apse and Façade
- 17 Furtum Sacrilegum: The ‘Holy Heads’ of Peter and Paul and Their Reliquaries in the Lateran
- 18 Reconsidering the Traces of Gentile da Fabriano and Pisanello in the Lateran Basilica
- 19 The Rite of the Reconciliation of Penitents at the Lateran Basilica
- 20 The New Passion Relics at the Lateran, Fifteenth to Sixteenth Centuries: A Translocated Sacred Topography
- 21 The East Façade of the Complex of Saint John Lateran in the Modern Era
- 22 The Book of Acts in the Constantinian Basilica: Cardinal Cesare Baronio and the Navata Clementina in San Giovanni in Laterano
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the Basilica of St John Lateran in the Middle Ages there have been many building projects, some of considerable scale, which are nonetheless not easy to identify. This chapter focusses on two examples, both of which give important insights into the building techniques employed: the lost front porch built by Pope Sergius II (844-847), which surviving illustrations indicate employed Carolingian construction technique typical for Rome, and the transept with the two bell towers attached to the northern side of the Basilica. In this second case the material evidence indicates both date of the building, in all probability from the pontificate of Nicholas IV (1288-1292), and its fine quality, appropriate to the exceptional importance of the project.
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