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    Built in 350 AD as a mausoleum for Constantine's daughter Costanza, the Mausoleum of S. Costanza has a circular form surrounded by an ambulatory and central domed space. The interior features twelve pairs of columns supporting the dome, with mosaics on the vaulted ceiling depicting classical and Christian symbols. Though originally a mausoleum, it was converted to a church in 1256 and remains a fine example of early Christian architecture.

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    Built in 350 AD as a mausoleum for Constantine's daughter Costanza, the Mausoleum of S. Costanza has a circular form surrounded by an ambulatory and central domed space. The interior features twelve pairs of columns supporting the dome, with mosaics on the vaulted ceiling depicting classical and Christian symbols. Though originally a mausoleum, it was converted to a church in 1256 and remains a fine example of early Christian architecture.

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    Built in 350 AD as a mausoleum for Constantine's daughter Costanza, the Mausoleum of S. Costanza has a circular form surrounded by an ambulatory and central domed space. The interior features twelve pairs of columns supporting the dome, with mosaics on the vaulted ceiling depicting classical and Christian symbols. Though originally a mausoleum, it was converted to a church in 1256 and remains a fine example of early Christian architecture.

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    Mausoleum of S

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    Built in 350 AD as a mausoleum for Constantine's daughter Costanza, the Mausoleum of S. Costanza has a circular form surrounded by an ambulatory and central domed space. The interior features twelve pairs of columns supporting the dome, with mosaics on the vaulted ceiling depicting classical and Christian symbols. Though originally a mausoleum, it was converted to a church in 1256 and remains a fine example of early Christian architecture.

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    Mausoleum of S.

     Costanza Commentary

    Built by Constantine as a mausoleum for his daughter Costanza, this building was later
    consecrated as a church in 1256, and is a fine example of early Christian architecture. The
    building has a circular form in the tradition of Roman mausoleums. A vestibule porch
    leads into a circular barrel-vaulted ambulatory which surrounds a central domed space.
    The ambulatory ceiling vault is decorated with mosaics of geometric motifs and
    intertwined vines on a white background, late imperial motifs with Christian symbolic
    significance. The central space is articulated by 12 pairs of coupled Corinthian columns
    with arches between them, which support the dome lit by 12 clerestory windows.

    — JY

    Architect unknown Location Rome, Italy map Date 350 timeline Building Type 
    mausoleum  Construction System bearing masonry Climate mediterranean Context 
    urban Style Late Roman, Classical, Corinthian interior Notes Circular. Converted into a
    church in 1256

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    The circular building is twenty-nine meters in diameter, with a central circular chamber
    eleven and a half meters wide, separated from a ring-shaped ambulatory by twelve pairs
    of radiating columns.

    Santa Costanza's exterior survives today in its except for the loss of its outer ambulatory.
    What remains of the interior of the building is ornately decorated with marble and
    tesserae mosaics which hint at a rich patronage of both pagan and early Christian
    provenance. The twelve pairs of columns which encircle the central chamber are of fine
    green and red marble, and are colour coordinated to the points of the cross. The
    ambulatory ceiling is vaulted, and decorated with mosaics which recall classical themes
    of Bacchic myth and early Christian beliefs. These same mosaics, like much of Santa
    Costanza have also been interpreted as discussing notions of the after-life.

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