Roman Pantheon Research Paper

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Kehinde salawu
The first image that I was attracted to is the Roman Pantheon temple, it was dedicated to all the god of pagan in Rome. It is the most important structure in the ancient Rome, the temple was built and dedicated in the A.D.118 and 125, the pantheon temple was built by Emperor Hadrian to replace, August friend and Marcus Agrippa in 27 B.C. that was burnt to the ground during 80 A.D. the front of Pantheon temple written description was dedicated by Marcus Agrippa. The Pantheon temple was the most amazing building among the building that was built during Hadrian reign. The Pantheon was designed in a circular form with granite and Corinthian. The building was built by many materials such as brick, granite, and concrete, marble, comparing it with Greek Parthenon it was a Doric temple and the temple was buoyed by ionic columns, is floor is rectangular in shape, the used marble, and limestone to build the whole building and they used ionic to decorate the wall. The east side of the building was used to represent the birth of Athena and the west was used to represent the contest of Athena and Poseidon to convert to the city of patron god. The view …show more content…
It is 300 ft. long and over 200 Ft. wide, the building was featured with barrel arches in the side aisles and groin vaults on the central nave. The groin arches had clerestory frames to let in light-interior it was protected by marble and highly decorative. It was located between Amor, Romulus and Roman temple on the through sacra, it was started by Maxentius during 308 C.E. It is the most notable building on the roman forum and largest building in Roman, some country like America, Greece Egypt, and Europe built Basilica to represent for example Church of nativity and the two beautiful basilicas in
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