The Pantheon is a building in Rome, originally intended as a temple to all the gods and now being used as a catholic church. Though the monumental inscription over the Corinthian? columns on the porch claims a building date during the third consulship of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa around 27 BC, the Pantheon was completely rebuilt in about A.D. 125, during the rule of Hadrian, as archeologists studying the date-stamps on the Roman bricks discovered. |
The Pantheon is a building in Rome. It was originally intended as a temple to all the gods and has been used since the 6th century as a Catholic church. Though the monumental inscription over the Corinthian? columns on the porch claims a building date during the third consulship of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa around 27 BC, the Pantheon was completely rebuilt in about A.D. 125, during the rule of Hadrian, as archeologists studying the date-stamps on the Roman bricks discovered. |
The Renaissance painter Raphael? and several of the kings of united Italy are buried in the Pantheon. |
The Panthéon is a building in Paris with a fascade resembling that of the Pantheon in Rome. It was built around 1757 by the architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot; its use repeatedly switched between church and secular building. Nowadays it houses the remains of important Frenchmen such as Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. |
The Panthéon is a building in Paris with a fascade resembling that of the Pantheon in Rome. It was built around 1757 by the architect [Jacques-Germain Soufflot]?; its use repeatedly switched between church and secular building. Nowadays it houses the remains of important Frenchmen such as Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. |