The Pantheon

From Antiquity to the Present

Tod A. Marder, Mark Wilson Jones

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780521809320
• eBook ISBN: 9781316121054
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: History of Ancient Art

The Pantheon is one of the most important architectural monuments of all time. Thought to have been built by Emperor Hadrian in approximately AD 125 on the site of an earlier, Agrippan-era monument, it brilliantly displays the spatial pyrotechnics emblematic of Roman architecture and engineering. 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. 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• List of plates and figures
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Usage
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Agrippa’s Pantheon and Its Origin
• 3 New Perspectives on the Dating of the Pantheon
• 4 The Conception and Construction of Drum and Dome
• 5 Sources and Parallels for the Design and Construction of the Pantheon
• 6 The Pantheon Builders: Estimating Manpower for Construction
• 7 Building on Adversity: The Pantheon and Problems with Its Construction
• 8 The Pantheon in the Middle Ages
• 9 Impressions of the Pantheon in the Renaissance
• 10 The Pantheon in the Seventeenth Century
• 11 Neoclassical Remodeling and Reconception, 1700–1820
• 12 A Nineteenth-Century Monument for the State
• 13 The Pantheon in the Modern Age
• Bibliography
• Index
• Plates