Sentence examples for ancient basilica from inspiring English sources

The ancient basilica looked completely restored to its former state.

The pit, 10 feet deep and more than 30 feet wide, had been dug next to an ancient basilica.

Magnificent paintings and a group of portrait statues were excavated from a building thought to be the ancient basilica of Herculaneum, and a large number of bronze and marble works of art were recovered from a suburban villa, called the Villa of the Papyri because of its having contributed a whole library of ancient papyri in Greek.

AT DAYBREAK, after prayers in the ancient basilica, Father Justin, the Texan-born librarian of St Catherine's monastery in Sinai, doffs his clerical head-dress and begins operating a Swiss camera that can capture illuminations, bindings and gold leaf in all their glorious detail.

The Royal Stoa (, also known as the Royal Colonnade, Royal Portico, Royal Cloisters, Royal Basilica or Stoa Basileia) was an ancient basilica constructed by Herod the Great during his renovation of the Temple Mount at the end of the 1st century BCE.

While Monet was painting his garden at Giverney, Sargent was finding his images in musty tomes and in ancient basilicas.

ROME (AP) — About 150 Gypsies, whose camp had been dismantled, took refuge in one of this city's ancient basilicas, creating a standoff on Saturday with city officials.

They are invariably an eclectic bunch -- scholars of antiquity, architects nursing ambitious projects, artists and designers of various disciplines -- who have each been selected to spend a year living at the American Academy in Rome, a lush compound overlooking the city's storied spires and ancient basilicas.

Ancient Christian basilicas (large, roofed buildings, generally with aisles) were viewed as images of the heavenly Jerusalem.

The term is sometimes applied to any second-floor gallery opening onto a higher nave by means of arcades or colonnades, like the galleries in many ancient Roman basilicas or Byzantine churches.

In the sixth century the Armenian governor Narses is credited with introducing the cult of Theodore, or Todoro, Venice's first patron saint and Isaac the Armenian is recorded as the founder of the ancient Santa Maria Assunta basilica on the island of Torcello.