IN IMPORTANCE ONLY TO THE TEMPLE. DURING THIS TIME TEMPLES WERE BUILT MASSIVE IN SIZE AND ELABORATE IN DECORATION. THIS WAS TO SHOW POWER AND WEALTHINESS.THE ROMANS LIKE THE GREEKS USED THE TEMPLE AST HE CHEIF ARCHITECTURAL FORM. BUT, UNLIKE IN EARLIER GREECE, ROME WAS THE CENTRAL NUCLEUS OF THE STATE'S RELIGION, RATHER THAN EACH POLIS SUPPRORTING ITS OWN. IN THE HEART OF THE CITY THERE WAS A FORUM. THIS WAS A PLACE WHERE CITIZENS CONDUCTED BUSINESS, RAN THE GOVERNMENT, AND WHERE THE HIGH PRIEST RESIDED. THE FORUM BECAME A SYMBOL OF ROMAN POWER AND CIVILIZATION. IN LATER ROME, CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE UNDERWENT MAJOR TRASFORMATIONS. CLASSICAL FORMS AND VALUES YEILDED TO A SYBOLIC REALISM IN ARCHITECTURE. DURING THE FIFTH CENTURY BISHOPS BEGAN TO DISAGREE WITH THE EMPERORS IN THE EVOLVING OF CHRISTIAN CENTERS OF WORSHIP. FORMERLY CHURCHES WERE IN THE FORMS OF PRIVATE ROOMS IN HOUSES, ISOLATED BUILDINGS, AND CONVERTED PAGAN TEMPLES. THESE WERE ALL ABANDONED IN FAVER OF STANDARDIZED STRUCTURES SUCH AS BAPTISTERIES AND BASILICAS. ARCHITECTS TRAVELED THROUGHOUT THE EMPIRE GLORIFING THE NEW RELIGION OF CHRISTIANITY. A BAPTISTERY WAS A SMALL POLYGONAL STRUCTURE USUALLY TOPPED WITH A DOME THAT WAS SEPPERATED FROM THE MAIN CHURCH WHERE BAPTISMS WERE PERFORMED. THEY WERE SEPERATED FROM THE MAIN CHURCH BECAUSE CHRISTIANS BELIEVED THAT THE UNBAPTIZED WERE UNWORTHY TO ENTER THE SANCTUARY AND MINGLE WITH ITS MEMBERS. THE BASILICA WAS A RECTANGULAR STRUCTURE THAT INCLUDED AN APSE AT ONE OR BOTH ENDS USED AT FIRST BY ROMANS FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES AND LATER BY CHRISTIANS FOR WORSHIP. THE FLOOR PLAN FOR THE BASILICA BECAME THE BASIC FLOORPLAN FOR ALL CHRISTIAN CHURCHES.SCULPTURETHE GLORY OF GREECE WAS IN ITS SCULPTURE. THE FIGURES OF THE 7TH AND 6TH CENTURIES BC LACK LIFE AND MOVEMENT; THEIR FACES WEAR THE FROZEN SMILE PECULIAR TO ARCHAIC SCULPTURE. EVEN SO, THESE EARLY CRAFTSMEN, WHOSE NAMES ARE LOST WITH THE TEMPLES THEY DECORATED, SHOW S...
