Constantina’s Mausoleum, Rome. Italy Audiobook
Constantina’s Mausoleum, Rome. Italy Audiobook
- Karolina Starin
- Cities Heirs of Byzantium Non Profit Association ACEB
- 2017-03-03
- 0 h 18 min
Summary:
The audioguide tells the story, details architecture and reports interesting facts about the mausoleum of Santa Costanza, the little girl from the founder of Constantinopol, which is one of the main examples of late-ancient architecture among Roman monuments.
This building was built and focused on the daughter of Constantine the fantastic, the Byzantine emperor who founded Constantinople.
Most analysts believe it goes back towards the years 337-350, when Constantine lived in Rome. The cathedral we see about Constantina’s Mausoleum, Rome. Italy today (Sant’Agnese outside the walls) isn’t the original cathedral of Sant’Agnese, but a reconstruction, through the seventh century, when Pope Onorio I decided to erect a fresh construction around the ruins of the Basilica of Constantine.
At the bottom from the Mausoleum’s architecture a couple of exceptional Roman models such as the Pantheon, but its structure is innovative with its concentric circular spaces, lent from the Roundabout of the Basilica from the Holy Sepulcher, in Jerusalem, whose construction was ordered by Constantine himself and his mother Elena.
You can examine the 3D model of the church and observe its interior through the MuByz App. The audioguide has been made by specialists in the field of history and artwork.