PANTHEON IN PARİS The Paris Pantheon is a neo-classical church in the Latin Quarter of Paris that was modeled after the Pantheon in Rome.With a dome similar to the one on St Paul’s Cathedral in London‚ the pantheon was originally an abbey‚ but today serves as a glimpse of history as the burial place for French heroes‚ leaders‚ artists‚ and writers. Neo-Classical architecture is a new birth of the classical architecture of ancient Greece and Rome. A Neoclassical building is likely to
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The History of DisneyLand Paris In the beginning... Following on from the success of the DisneyLand theme park in Anaheim‚ plans to build a European version first started around 1975‚ nine years after Walt Disney died. Initially Britain‚ Italy‚ Spain and France were all considered as possible locations‚ though Britain and Italy were quickly dropped from the list of potential sites because they both lacked a suitably large expanse of flat land. The most likely site was thought to be in the Alicante
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The Pantheon One of the more inspiring and brilliantly conceived and constructed dome structures in the world is the Pantheon of Rome. This example imposes a magnificent strength of ingenuity and dominance over their surrounding landscape‚ and the Pantheon deserves to be researched and admired for its architecturally innovative and bold design of its time. The building was accommodated with serious technical impediments that required a thorough and scrutinizing attention to detail in order to
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The Pantheon is a piece of architecture in Rome‚ Italy constructed under order of the Roman emperor Hadrian between 118 and 128 AD (ignoring the previous building at the site). The Pantheon was one of the first pieces of architecture to utilize concrete‚ and the strength and lightness of the material allowed for the Pantheon’s design to be revolutionary and very influential in architecture. The Pantheon was originally built as a temple to the gods. In the seventh century it was sanctified and has
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The Roman Pantheon was constructed between 118 and 125 CE by the Emperor Hadrian and was known as a temple that was dedicated to all the gods. It can be found in Rome‚ Italy and was the most revolutionary and influential building in the Roman Empire. The Pantheon is one of the best-preserved of all the Roman buildings. The arches and use of concrete shows off the interests of the Romans and how they mastered using these elements to construct many circular‚ arches‚ and spherical designs into their
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order‚ including the Pantheon. The Pantheon is located in the modern business district of Campo Marzo in Rome‚ Italy‚ and it was a former Roman temple‚ but now it has been consecrated as a Catholic church. Although it is one of the most preserved buildings in the history of architecture‚ it has many outcomes and many changes that has been evolving
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Barry Switzer If I showed you pictures of the Parthenon and Pantheon‚ would you get them confused? Well‚ I sure did at first‚ but then realized a lot of people do because they look almost alike. Well I am going to tell you today that they are two completely different‚ yet monumental pieces of architecture. To start off I want to look at the Parthenon and then finish with the Pantheon. So let’s begin! The Parthenon is a temple that towers above the city of Athens‚ symbolizing the Athenians’
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The Pantheon The Pantheon in Rome is the best-preserved Roman architectural structure on earth. It has survived twenty centuries of pillage and invasion‚ and continues to withstand the pollution of everyday locals and tourists. Marcus Agrippa‚ the son-in-law of the first Roman emperor Augustus‚ first built the Pantheon in 27-25 BCE to commemorate the victory of Actium over Antony and Cleopatra. However‚ after a fire destroyed the original in 80 CE‚ it was rebuilt by Domitian‚ only to be replaced
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Inside the Pantheon is a dome that has a perfect spherical shape. In the centre of this dome is an opening with a symmetrical circular shape known as the ‘oculus’‚ which is sometimes also referred to as “Great Eye”. Reasons why these features of architecture were chosen: The meaning of the word ‘Pantheon’ is ‘contains all gods’ with ‘pan’ meaning all and ‘theon’ meaning gods. The interior of the Pantheon contains altars to individual gods hence the name. The dome in the interior of the Pantheon is round
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both cultures were considered the foundations of western culture‚ and the influence continues to this day. This is obvious in that the design of the Parthenon and Pantheon for example‚ continue to be used in the construction of official buildings in the west in modern times. Discussion 1. Similarities: Both the Parthenon and the Pantheon are ancient temples. They look similar in that they both illustrate geometric precision yet there are distinctions in their styles which reflects the culture that
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