Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Pantheon (UK: / ˈ p æ n θ i ə n /, US: /-ɒ n /; [1] Latin: Pantheum, [nb 1] from Ancient Greek Πάνθειον (Pantheion) '[temple] of all the gods') is a former Roman temple and, since AD 609, a Catholic church (Italian: Basilica Santa Maria ad Martyres or Basilica of St. Mary and the Martyrs) in Rome, Italy.
Interior of Pantheon / Rome, Italy: Date: Taken on 21 November 2008: ... Dimensions User Comment; current: 09:51, 13 February 2017: 1,500 × 2,734 (2.41 MB) Panoramio ...
It is a former Roman temple and, since AD 609, a Catholic church (Basilica Santa Maria ad Martyres or Basilica of St. Mary and the Martyrs) in Rome, Italy. It was built on the site of an earlier temple commissioned by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BCE – 14 CE), then after that burnt down, the present building was ...
The doors, measuring 4.45 metres (14.6 ft) wide and 7.53 metres (24.7 ft) high, consist of two leaves. [2] The panels and lintels of the doors are made of cast bronze. Each leaf pivots on pins installed in the floor at the bottom and in the architrave at the top. [3]
Rome, Italy Roman Empire: First thermae in Rome with a domed central building [4] [4] Start of 2nd century AD – 128* 30 100 Baths of Trajan: Rome, Italy Roman Empire: Half dome [5] 128 – 1436 43.4 142 Pantheon: Rome, Italy Roman Empire: Largest unreinforced solid concrete dome in the world. Archetype of Western dome construction. [2] [6] [7 ...
Cross-section of the Pantheon's rotunda. A rotunda (from Latin rotundus) is any roofed building with a circular ground plan, and sometimes covered by a dome.It may also refer to a round room within a building (a famous example being the one below the dome of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.).
Construction of the fountain in the Piazza della Rotonda was authorized on September 25, together with a fountain for Piazza Colonna, and two more for Piazza Navona; the fountain for the Rotonda, completed in 1575, was of a chalice-type design, around 3.5 to 4 meters in height, and fed with the Vergine water through a terracotta conduit. [9]
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 23:03, 28 September 2018: 512 × 303 (161 KB): Cmglee: Fix MIME type again (should be PNG). 22:57, 28 September 2018