De la basílica vitruviana a la basílica ilustrada

Abstract

[EN] The basilical church model has been present in Christianity since the time of Constantine. Among its various variants and interpretations could be highlighted that developed in the France of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, characterized by lintel entablatures that support half-barrel vaults and which, ultimately, refers to a misreading of the vitruvian description of the Basilica of Fano. This important episode will be the renovating germ of neoclassical architecture, although the buildings we are about to treat are often obscured by the shadow of the paradigmatic church of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris which, however, abandons the original typology. In this text we propose a revision of the architecture of this time looking for a common thread connecting its main works, which try to explain themselves from not only historical or formal approaches, but also constructive ones.