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Early Christianity used the same artistic media as the surrounding pagan culture. These media included fresco, mosaics, sculpture, and manuscript illumination. Early Christian art used not only Roman forms but also Roman styles. Late classical style included a proportional portrayal of the human body and impressionistic presentation of space.
Although renovated and decorated in the late 6th century, the church has retained Early Christian features, including the atrium. Several Early Christian churches exist in Syria and Armenia, mostly in a ruined state. These show Roman rather than Byzantine architectural features, but have a regional character distinct from those of Rome.
Church architecture refers to the architecture of Christian buildings, such as churches, chapels, convents, seminaries, etc. It has evolved over the two thousand years of the Christian religion , partly by innovation and partly by borrowing other architectural styles as well as responding to changing beliefs, practices and local traditions.
Early Christian Build by Pope Callixtus I, also called Callistus I, the bishop of Rome (according to Sextus Julius Africanus) Cathedral of Saint Domnius: Split: Croatia: 295–305 295-305 641 Roman Catholic: Built 295–305 as the Mausoleum of emperor Diocletian, is the second oldest structure used by any Christian Cathedral. It is regarded as ...
Buildings and structures of the Catholic Church in North America (7 C) Buildings and structures of the Eastern Orthodox Church in North America (3 C) Protestant buildings and structures in North America (4 C, 1 P)
A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised): The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture. Knopf, 2013. ISBN 978-1400043590. Reiff, Daniel D. Houses from Books. Penn State Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-271-01943-7. Scully, Vincent. American Architecture and Urbanism. New Revised Edition. New York: Henry Holt, 1988.
Christian fundamentalism began as a movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to reject influences of secular humanism and source criticism in modern Christianity. In reaction to liberal Protestant groups that denied doctrines considered fundamental to these conservative groups, they sought to establish tenets necessary to maintaining ...
Christian monasteries in the United States (2 C, 3 P) Christian schools in the United States (15 C, 5 P) Christian universities and colleges in the United States (12 C, 9 P)