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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. It was built on the ...
The Pantheon in Rome.Largest dome in the world for more than 1,300 years. Oculus of the Pantheon. This is a list of Roman domes.The Romans were the first builders in the history of architecture to realize the potential of domes for the creation of large and well-defined interior spaces. [1]
118–28 – Pantheon, Rome is completed, an early full dome. [4] 113 – Trajan's Column in Rome dedicated. 104–6 – Alcántara Bridge, a Roman multiple arched bridge over the Tagus River in Spain. 82 – Arch of Titus in Rome an artifact from the 'Temple Period' and the beginning of the Jewish Diaspora. 100s – Pantheon, Rome is completed.
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.).
Picture this: a tomb hiding a jaw-dropping 5,000-year-old dagger made from rock crystal, stretching about 8.7 inches of pure craftsmanship, complete with an opulent ivory hilt and sheath.
The Roman Pantheon had the largest dome in the world for more than a millennium and is the largest unreinforced solid concrete dome to this day [1]. The Roman architectural revolution, also known as the concrete revolution, [2] is the name sometimes given to the widespread use in Roman architecture of the previously little-used architectural forms of the arch, vault, and dome.
According to a plan by Giacomo Leoni, the width of the doorway is 16.6 feet (4.8 m) The Doors of the Roman Pantheon are the main entrance bronze doors to the rotunda of the Roman Pantheon . As a monument of applied arts , the exact date of their creation has remained open to speculation for centuries, with scholars attempting to determine the ...
The Colosseum opened in the year 80 A.D. and was the largest building in Rome at that time. The stadium held gladiator games where warriors would battle until their death, but those games were ...