The Pantheon : from antiquity to the present / edited by Tod A. Marder, Rutgers University, Mark Wilson Jones, University of Bath.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marder, Tod A., editor.

Wilson Jones, Mark, 1956- editor.

Standardized Title:

Pantheon (Cambridge University Press)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pantheon (Rome, Italy).

Rome (Italy)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 471 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction / Tod A. Marder, Mark Wilson Jones

Agrippa's Pantheon and its origin / Eugenio La Rocca

New persectives on the dating of the Pantheon / Lise M. Hetland

The conception and construction of drum and dome / Giangiacomo Martines

Sources and parallels for the design and construction of the Pantheon / Gene Waddell

The Pantheon builders : estimating manpower for construction / Janet DeLaine

Building on adversity : the Pantheon and problems with its construction / Mark Wilson Jones

The Pantheon in the Middle Ages / Erik Thunø

Impressions of the Pantheon in the Renaissance / Arnold Nesselrath

The Pantheon in the seventeenth century / Tod A. Marder

Neoclassical remodeling and reconception, 1700-1820 / Susanna Pasquali

A nineteenth-century monument for the state / Robin B. Williams

The Pantheon in the modern age / Richard A. Etlin.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

ISBN:

1-316-12977-2

1-316-12105-4

1-316-11994-7

1-316-12868-7

1-139-01597-4