Tag: pantheon
All the articles with the tag "pantheon".
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The Pantheon Dome: How Rome Cast a Concrete Sky That Has Not Fallen in 1,900 Years
Published:• 12 min readThe Pantheon dome is still, after nineteen hundred years, the largest unreinforced concrete dome on earth. How the Romans cast it -- and why it has not fallen.
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Who Built the Pantheon: The Three Names Behind a Two-Thousand-Year-Old Roof
Published:• 10 min readWho built the Pantheon? Agrippa's name is on it, Hadrian actually built it, and Apollodorus of Damascus probably designed the dome. Here is how all three fit.
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Raphael's Famous Work and the Tomb in the Pantheon: Why a Painter Got Buried with Gods
Published:• 11 min readRaphael's most famous work earned him a burial slot in the Pantheon in 1520 -- a reading of the paintings that made him, and the epitaph that closes them.
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Pantheon History: How a Pagan Temple Became the Oldest Continuously Used Building in Rome
Published:• 11 min readThe full pantheon history -- Agrippa's lost temple, the fire, Hadrian's rebuild, the conversion to Santa Maria ad Martyres, and the pope who stripped the bronze.