Cambridge University PressEdition: Reprint, 8/13/2015EAN 9780521006361, ISBN10: 0521006368Paperback, 508 pages, 25.4 x 17.8 x 3 cmLanguage: EnglishThe 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.1. Introduction Tod A. Marder and Mark Wilson Jones2. Agrippa's Pantheon and its origin Eugenio La Rocca3. Dating the Pantheon Lise M. Hetland4. The conception and construction of drum and dome Giangiacomo Martines5. Sources and parallels for the design and construction of the Pantheon Gene Waddell6. The Pantheon buildersestimating manpower for construction Janet DeLaine7. Building on adversitythe Pantheon and problems with its construction Mark Wilson Jones8. The Pantheon in the middle ages Erik Thunø9. Impressions of the Pantheon in the Renaissance Arnold Nesselrath10. The Pantheon in the seventeenth century Tod A. Marder11. Neo-classical remodelling and reconception 1700–1820 Susanna Pasquali12. A nineteenth-century monument for the state Robin B. Williams13. The Pantheon in the modern age Richard Etlin.
