The Pantheon

When was it built

Around 126 AD

Who commissioned it

Emperor Hadrian

Dedicated to

Marcus Agrippa

Height and diameter

43 metres

What kind of columns

Fluted and Corinthian; 14m high almsot 1.5m thick; 8 across the front with two groups of 4 behind

Eight recesses

1. entrance

2. other 7 for planetary gods 

Domed ceiling

Coffered

In the centre of the dome was a large

8m wide oculus representing the sun

seven planetary gods

1. Mercury

2. Venus

3. Mars

4. jupiter

5. saturn

6. apollo (sun)

7. diana (moon)

portico held

statues of Augustus Ceasar and Agrippa to align them with the gods. 

Pediment above the door used to hold

A bronze relief of the battle of the titans

coffers divided into 28 sections

romans thought it was the perfect number as sum of its factor equal to it. 

Cassius Dio

had a notion that the dome is a canopy of the heavens and the rotunda itself is a microcosm of the Roman world beneath the gods