Pantheon. Imperial Rome. 118-125 CE. Concrete With Stone Facing.

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