The Pantheon: Design, Meaning, and Progeny, With a New Foreword by John Pinto, Second Edition

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The Pantheon in Rome is without doubt one of the grand architectural statements of every age. This richly illustrated book isolates the reasons for its ordinary have an effect on on Western architecture, discussing the Pantheon as a building in its time but also as a building all the time.

Mr. MacDonald traces the history of the structure since its completion and examines its progeny–domed rotundas with temple-fronted porches built from the second one century to the twentieth–relating them to the original. He analyzes the Pantheon’s design and the main points of its technology and construction, and explores the meaning of the building at the basis of ancient texts, formal symbolism, and architectural analogy. He sees the immense unobstructed interior, with its disk of light that marks the sun’s passage through the day, as an architectural metaphor for the ecumenical pretensions of the Roman Empire.

Past discussions of the Pantheon have tended to center on design and structure. These are but the start line for Mr. MacDonald, who goes on to show why it ranks–in conjunction with Cheops’s pyramid, the Parthenon, Wren’s churches, Mansard’s palaces-as an architectural archetype.

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