The Pantheon: From Antiquity to the Present
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (655 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521809320 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 503 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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They also identify new and productive directions for subsequent research on the ancient edifice and on its extended legacy." John Pinto, Princeton University, New Jersey"For two thousand years, the Pantheon has stood watch in the center of Rome, a marvel of engineering and an unfailingly mysterious symbol. New answers to unsolved questions of who built it and why, how, and when succeed each other and connect to lively accounts of the fascination it held for countless generations from the early Middle Ages to modern times." Alina Payne, Harvard University, Massachusetts . "The contributors provide a valuable synthesis of recent research on the Pantheon, the paradigm of Roman architectural and engineering p
He is the author of Principles of Roman Architecture, the first book to be awarded both the Banister Fletcher Prize and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Prize. . His work has earned fellowship support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Philosophical S
The Pantheon gives an up-to-date account of recent research on the best preserved building in the corpus of ancient Roman architecture from the time of its construction to the twenty-first century. The Pantheon is one of the most important architectural monuments of all time. Each chapter addresses a specific fundamental issue or period pertaining to the building; together, the essays in this volume shed light on all aspects of the Pantheon's creation, and establish the importance of the history of the building to an understanding of its ancient fabric and heritage, its present state, and its special role in the survival and evolution of ancient architecture in modern Rome.. Thought to have been built by Emperor Hadrian in approximately 125 AD on the site of an earlier, Agrippan-era monument, it brilliantly displays the spatial pyrotechnics emblematic of Roman architecture and engineering
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