The Pantheon, built in Rome, Italy around 118-125 CE and the Colosseum, also built in Rome, around 70-80 CE will be discussed in this essay.
The Pantheon became the temple for all the gods after the Hadrian emperor came into power. The Pantheon is simply made out of concrete, like any other Roman architecture, with one narrow end. Everything about the Pantheon is revolutionary except that “its façade of eight Corinthian columns – almost all that could be seen from ground level in antiquity – was a bow to tradition” (Kleiner 210). This architecture follows a hemispherical dome where the Romans believe in the vault of the heavens. The use of coffers (sunken decorative panels) was to bring aestheticism to this architecture. The interior of the
The Pantheon became the temple for all the gods after the Hadrian emperor came into power. The Pantheon is simply made out of concrete, like any other Roman architecture, with one narrow end. Everything about the Pantheon is revolutionary except that “its façade of eight Corinthian columns – almost all that could be seen from ground level in antiquity – was a bow to tradition” (Kleiner 210). This architecture follows a hemispherical dome where the Romans believe in the vault of the heavens. The use of coffers (sunken decorative panels) was to bring aestheticism to this architecture. The interior of the