Contexto
Form:
- 141 feet tall
- Contained different colored marbles slabs
- Corinthian columns in the front
- Pediment in the front as well
- Large concrete dome inside contained indentations called coffers that removed some of the weight of the dome
Function:
- Originally used as a temple for the gods, but later transformed into a Christian church
Context:
- Hadrian oversaw the construction, he loved visitors and seeing the Pantheon himself
- Originally Depicted the gods and demonstrated a connection between the earthy sphere meeting the heavenly sphere
- One of the most influential buildings for the renaissance and in modern time
Content:
- Barrel: terrestrial, Dome: divine
- Would have originally been fitted in bronze
- The pediment would have held sculptor of the battle of Titans
- Originally had a colonnade, a rectangular row of columns that would have obstructed the side of the Pantheon that bows out
in order to create a sphere and people would only be able to see the pediment and ordinary entrance
- Large columns that hold up the pediment
- Columns did not have fluting and were corinthian
- Bronze doors
- Vast circular shape, the roof was a dome with an open-top
- Unlike the basilica, it has a central part that radiates out
- Its center is not on the ground though, it is in the center of the building so that you could fit a whole sphere in it.
- Tons of geometric shapes (Circles, rectangles, and Squares)
- Contains an interior frieze of false windows
- The frieze doesn't line up with the dome, which gives it an independent feeling
- Brick and concrete hold the weight of the structure
- Concrete could shape spaces like post and lintel never could
- One great window at the top called an oculus