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Treats the Pantheon from the unique perspective of its construction history, survival, and reception through history.
List of contents
1. Introduction Tod A. Marder and Mark Wilson Jones; 2. Agrippa's Pantheon and its origin Eugenio La Rocca; 3. Dating the Pantheon Lise M. Hetland; 4. The conception and construction of drum and dome Giangiacomo Martines; 5. Sources and parallels for the design and construction of the Pantheon Gene Waddell; 6. The Pantheon builders: estimating manpower for construction Janet DeLaine; 7. Building on adversity: the Pantheon and problems with its construction Mark Wilson Jones; 8. The Pantheon in the middle ages Erik Thunø; 9. Impressions of the Pantheon in the Renaissance Arnold Nesselrath; 10. The Pantheon in the seventeenth century Tod A. Marder; 11. Neo-classical remodelling and reconception 1700-1820 Susanna Pasquali; 12. A nineteenth-century monument for the state Robin B. Williams; 13. The Pantheon in the modern age Richard Etlin.
About the author
Tod A. Marder is professor of art history at Rutgers University, New Jersey. He has lectured and published widely on the Pantheon, the art and architecture of Bernini, and many related topics. His work has earned fellowship support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the American Philosophical Society, among others. He is the author of Bernini and the Art of Architecture (1998), which received the thirty-fifth Daria Borghese Prize for best book on a Roman topic by a non-Italian author.Mark Wilson Jones is senior lecturer in architecture at the University of Bath. His research concentrates on ancient architecture and its design, along with the ramifications for developments since the Renaissance. He is the author of Principles of Roman Architecture (2000), the first book to be awarded both the Banister Fletcher Prize and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Prize.
Summary
Treats the Pantheon from the unique perspective of its construction history, survival, and reception through history.
