Name: Chong Wai LoonStudent ID: 0319745Session: September, 2014

Subject : Effective Public Communication ( topic 2 :Religious Building Around the World )

The Pantheon

Location of Pantheon

• Rome, Italy

• Piazza della Rotonda, 00186 Rome, Italy

Facts About The Pantheon

• Temple of all Gods• The exact age of the pantheon remains unknown.• The dome was the largest in the world until Duomo of

Florence was built in year 1436.• The diameter of the dome is 142ft.

Historical Background of Pantheon

• The Pantheon in Rome was not built in a day. Twice destroyed and twice rebuilt, Rome's famous "Temple of All the Gods" began as a rectangular structure. Over the course of a century, this original Pantheon evolved into a domed building so famous that it inspired architects for the next 2,000 years.

• Archeologists and historians debate which emperor and which architects designed Pantheon we see today. In 27 AD, Marcus Agrippa, the first emperor of the Roman Empire, commissioned a rectangular Pantheon building. Agrippa's Pantheon burnt down in 80 AD. All that remains is the front portico.

• Another Roman Emperor, Titus Flavius Domitianus, (or, simply Domitian) rebuilt the Pantheon, but it burned down in about 110 AD.

• Then, in 126 AD, Emperor Hadrian completely restored the Pantheon in Rome. This Roman Pantheon survived many centuries and wars. The Pantheon remains the best-preserved building in Rome.

Structure and Layout of Pantheon

• 8 massive granite Corinthian columns in front• two groups of four behind

Structure and Layout of Pantheon

• oculus

• 27 feet across

• at the dome's apex

Types of ornamentation used

• is the coffer on the roof of pantheon

• the roof is intended to symbolize the heavens

• reduce the weight of the roof

Types of ornamentation used

Tomb of King Umberto I, successor of Vittorio Emanuele

The tomb of Raphael

Tomb of Vittorio Emanuele II, first king of a unified Italy

Fountain of the Pantheon

Type of materials used

granite portico 39-foot-high gray granite portico columns

primarily volcanic

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