Location of the Basilica Porcia on a map of ancient Rome
The Basilica Porcia was the first civil basilica built in ancient Rome. It was built by order of Marcus Porcius Cato in 184 BC as censor and is named after him. He built it as a space for administering laws and for merchants to meet, against some opposition. It stood to the west of the Curia, on land bought by Cato and previously occupied by shops and private houses. Many trials were held inside the basilica.
It was destroyed by fire after the body of Publius Clodius Pulcher was alit on a pyre in the adjoining senate house in 52 BC. The ruins were probably flattened later that year to build a new building on the site.
The BasilicaPorcia was the first civil basilica built in ancient Rome. It was built by order of Marcus Porcius Cato in 184 BC as censor and is named after...
word basilica derives from Ancient Greek: βασιλικὴ στοά, romanized: basilikḗ stoá, lit. 'royal stoa'. The first known basilica—the BasilicaPorcia in the...
the BasilicaPorcia, Basilica Aemilia, and Basilica Opimia, and was the third built. Although excavations have revealed remains of the basilica as well...
first appearance on the public stage was to oppose changes to the BasilicaPorcia, a public building commissioned by his great-grandfather Cato the Elder...
The Basilica Opimia was one of four Republican-era basilicas in the Roman Forum. The other two were the Basilica Aemilia, the BasilicaPorcia, and the...
encroached on the public way, and built the first known basilica in 184 BC, named BasilicaPorcia, in the Forum near the Curia (Livy, History, 39.44; Plutarch...
immediately. In later times, the tribune benches were placed in front of the BasilicaPorcia, a public mall near the Forum, to accommodate the large number of people...
meeting place of the Senate (replaced by the Curia Cornelia) BasilicaPorcia (184 BC), first basilica in the Forum area; built by Marcus Portius Cato (Cato the...
late Roman Republic, they were placed in front of the BasilicaPorcia. The earliest basilicas (large, aisled halls) were introduced to the Forum in 184...
and the city-centre with an emphatically Christian social statement. BasilicaPorcia Built in 184 BC by Cato the Elder, during his censorship, its remains...
the Roman Forum, between the Regia, Temple of Castor and Pollux, and the Basilica Aemilia, on the site of Caesar's cremation. Ancient accounts of Caesar's...
Basilica of Neptune Basilica Opimia BasilicaPorciaBasilica Sempronia Basilica Ulpia Porta Maggiore BasilicaBasilica di San Clemente Basilica di Santa Maria...
basilica, the BasilicaPorcia, was built in Rome in 184 BC by Cato the Elder during the time he was censor. Other early examples include the basilica...
tribe living in the Marche on the Adriatic. The oldest known basilica, the BasilicaPorcia, is completed in Rome by Cato the Elder during the time he is...
fire spread to the rest of the building, destroying it and the nearby basilicaPorcia. Milo, who had fled the city for his safety, returned on news of this...
mob then stormed the senate house and burnt it down – along with the BasilicaPorcia – as part of Clodius' funeral pyre. At the resulting senate meeting...
house in the forum to the censor, Cato, who used the land to build the BasilicaPorcia. Gaius Maenius, praetor in 180 BC, assigned the province of Sicily...
murder of Clodius and the burning down of both the Curia Julia and the BasilicaPorcia in the Forum Romanum. In consequence, the elections for the consulship...
The fire consumed the Curia, destroying it as well as damaging the BasilicaPorcia. Faustus Sulla, son of the dictator Sulla, was commissioned by the...
tribe living in the Marche on the Adriatic. The oldest known basilica, the BasilicaPorcia, is completed in Rome by Cato the Elder during the time he is...
basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice Ecce Homo Altarpiece - 1524-25 - Casa Cardinal Piazza, Venice Gateway - Sant'Agnese, Padua Porcia -...
letters record him visiting Brutus there, and it was there that Brutus's wife Porcia, the daughter of Cato Uticensis, committed suicide. He also may have agreed...
the 15th century. Galileo Bonaiuti was buried in the same church, the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, where about 200 years later, Galileo Galilei...
famous masterpiece, the Assumption of the Virgin, for the high altar of the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, where it is still in situ. This piece...
Theatre Munich. Among the mansions that still exist in Munich are the Palais Porcia, the Palais Preysing, the Palais Holnstein and the Prinz-Carl-Palais. All...
of Urbino 1538 119 × 165 cm Uffizi (Florence) Portrait of Count Antonio Porcia and Brugnera c. 1535–1540 115 × 93 cm Pinacoteca di Brera (Milan) Portrait...
by Jacopo Pesaro, whose family acquired in 1518 the chapel in the Frari Basilica in Venice for which the work was painted, and where it remains today. Jacopo...
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