The Pantheon

Roman architecture has become a symbolic meaning of Roman Culture. It has been influential by Greek building such as It has been established in 3 orders: Ionic, Doric, and Corinthian. The most order that has been influential is Corinthian because of its slender fluted columns and capitals that are decorated with acanthus leaves and scrolls. Many Roman temples have been categorized in the Corinthian 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
A Roman legend tells us that the Pantheon was originally built and dedicated to a mythological founder named Romulus. As the pantheon was still in monumental shape, in 80 AD, a huge fire was spreading throughout Rome and burned the monument. As many decades went by after the fire in 110 AD, the Roman emperor named Domitian agreed to help rebuilt the temple but it was causing another demolishing due to the fact that it was struck lightning, spreading a fire that led the previous event that the temple was about to be burned down again. But not all of that is affecting the citizens of Rome. Finally in 125 AD, a Roman emperor named Hadrian agreed to remodeled the temple that reflects the symmetry and beauty of the Roman Empire. When Hadrian was remodeling the temple he was once said that his intentions of building the Pantheon is to continue to have the same representation as “All Gods should reproduce the likeness of the terrestrial globe and of the stellar sphere” (Parker). Meanwhile, mysteries are shown Hadrian recreated this architecture to have a symbolic significance that will fortify his connection to Rome’s ancient imperial line. As we all know, since this is a Roman temple, The name “Pantheon” is from the Greek words “pan” meaning all and “Theos”
For example, Mark and Hutchinson was studying about the cracks and how to construct them by how the distribution of internal forces. He mentioned that However, most of the cracking of the interior has changed the behavior of the dome within the first set of models. In 1930, an Italian architect and Superintendent of Monuments named Alberto Terenzio documented the cracks of the walls and the dome. He identified that the cracks in the dome were extended to only 33 degrees, which is also determine to have a transition from “tension to compressive stress at 51.8 degrees” (Cottrell