Paris Pantheon Research Paper
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 have these features: symmetrical shape, tall columns that rise the full height of the building, triangular pediment, and a domed roof that the Pantheon is one of the major work in the neoclassical style.
HİSTORY
The pantheon is the …show more content…
Construction of imposing building started in 1757,Soufflot also drew up plans for a monumental square and a law school was built opposite the church between 1771 and 1783, which was then followed by a school of theology, but due to financial difficulties, it was only completed after Soufflot’s death, by his pupil Jean-Baptiste
Rondelet, in 1789. The Revolution happened in that period and in 1791 the constitutive assembly gave a decree through which the basilica was transformed into a temple supposed to host the remains of the nation’s personalities. Since then, the Pantheon was transformed back into a basilica two times. In 1885, once the writer Victor Hugo was buried in the mausoleum and the Pantheon was never again transformed into a basilica, thus remaining a civic temple, used for burying personalities. Today its vaults contain all sorts of politicians, writers, and thinkers.There is also the heart of Leon Gambetta in an urn, along with
Resistance fighters like Jean Moulin whose ashes were transferred from the Pere Lachaise
Cemetary, Louis Braille whose body was moved to the Pantheon on the centenary of his death and many more that have been buried at this fabulous monument in Paris, but one
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 have these features: symmetrical shape, tall columns that rise the full height of the building, triangular pediment, and a domed roof that the Pantheon is one of the major work in the neoclassical style.
HİSTORY
The pantheon is the …show more content…
Construction of imposing building started in 1757,Soufflot also drew up plans for a monumental square and a law school was built opposite the church between 1771 and 1783, which was then followed by a school of theology, but due to financial difficulties, it was only completed after Soufflot’s death, by his pupil Jean-Baptiste
Rondelet, in 1789. The Revolution happened in that period and in 1791 the constitutive assembly gave a decree through which the basilica was transformed into a temple supposed to host the remains of the nation’s personalities. Since then, the Pantheon was transformed back into a basilica two times. In 1885, once the writer Victor Hugo was buried in the mausoleum and the Pantheon was never again transformed into a basilica, thus remaining a civic temple, used for burying personalities. Today its vaults contain all sorts of politicians, writers, and thinkers.There is also the heart of Leon Gambetta in an urn, along with
Resistance fighters like Jean Moulin whose ashes were transferred from the Pere Lachaise
Cemetary, Louis Braille whose body was moved to the Pantheon on the centenary of his death and many more that have been buried at this fabulous monument in Paris, but one