The Pantheon at night
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
The Pantheon at night
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Agripa's Pantheon at night.
Probably my favorite building of the Imperial Rome, and one of the best preserved. Pantheon means all the Gods, and was a temple to honor all the Roman deities, and then some. It was later turned into a Christian church.
The way the dome of the Pantheon was built remains a mystery and baffled architects of centuries after. Michelangelo, when he built the dome of Saint Peter's Basilica, designed the new one one meter narrower than the ancient Roman as a token of respect, SO this one remained the biggest dome in the world. If you follow the curvature of the dome inside the building you obtain a perfect sphere that just touches the ground.
There is a digital oil painting based on this picture here:
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-pantheon-at-night-painting-weston-westmoreland.html
You can learn more about what drives me in my blog:
http://inspiringthoughtsandimages.com/
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February 6th, 2014
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