You don't get a sense of the size of it from this clip. It is HUGE! And its size would leave an even bigger impression if it were not so near St.Peter's.
Yes, I agree with you! I got chills up and down my spine and tears in my eyes when I entered the Pantheon for the first time. Nothing prepared me for the scale of the dome and the shear perfection all the elements. When visiting Rome this is the one “must see” on my list every time.
@Victor Tronin they did? that doesnt conform with what i have read of ancient egyptian texts and iconography. what blog or rag did you get your information from?
I got full body shivers the moment I passed through the Pantheon's doors and saw the dome for the first time. Amazing that it still delivers the awe 1900 years later in an age of skyscrapers.
The Pantheon is one of those rare places that is just overwhelming and awe inspiring when you go there and see it, whether you know nothing about history, or even if you know a lot about the history of the building itself and are seeing it in person for the first time.
Indeed. One of the driving factors of this is the fact they didn't use 'reinforced concrete'. They used just plain old concrete. Buildings in cities and everywhere else in the modern world are lucky to stand 50 years without beginning to fall apart.
My brother it was built by Syrian Roman Apollodorus of Damascus (ابو اللودور الدمشقي )he was greatest The greatest designer and architect in ancient history🇸🇾🇮🇹🇸🇾🇮🇹
I papi,nei secoli, come Urbano VIII dei Barberini (quello che non fecero i barbari lo fecero i Barberini) hanno depredato e distrutto la magnificenza e la gloria di Roma, templi, terme, basiliche, statue, opere d'arte, Colosseo, Circo Massimo e di tutto e di più..., devono pagare per i loro misfatti e bruciare per sempre all'inferno
@@angeloargentieri5605 Ai, para de mimimi, cara. Olha tudo de lindo e magnífico que foi construído com os espólios desses monumentos que você citou que foram destruídos. Hoje temos uma ideia bem diferente sobre manutenção e conservação do qie na época dele. Só isso.
Underneath the large hole on the ceiling are two holes on the floor, I fell into the trap of tossing coins in there for good luck seen by others. I later learned these holes are drainage systems. So please people do not toss coins in the holes on the floor of the Pantheon.
Great video, however two things that were not mentioned 1) That each year on Rome's birthdate (April 21st) at around 12:30 in the afternoon the sun shines through the oculus and directly through the front door. It happens only on that date. 2) That each year on the Pentecost, Rome's fire department drops tens of thousands of individual rose petals from the opening of the oculus.
When I stood there for the first time under the dome,with the open sky above ,I just cried and cried!! We had drawn the perspectives of the tiles inside and, now ,seeing it for real for the 1st time,it was like a dream come true!!!❤❤❤❤❤
The Pantheon is a building in Rome, Italy, commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus (27 BC - 14 AD) and rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian about 126 AD. The building is circular with a portico of large granite Corinthian columns (eight in the first rank and two groups of four behind) under a pediment. A rectangular vestibule links the porch to the rotunda, which is under a coffered concrete dome, with a central opening (oculus) to the sky. Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome. The height to the oculus and the diameter of the interior circle are the same, 43.3 metres (142 ft). It is one of the best-preserved of all Ancient Roman buildings. It has been in continuous use throughout its history, and since the 7th century, the Pantheon has been used as a church dedicated to "St. Mary and the Martyrs" but informally known as "Santa Maria Rotonda". The square in front of the Pantheon is called Piazza della Rotonda.
@@danesovic7585 @Danesovic yeah. Well... i got red pilled a few months ago. And i turned a new leaf. Almost. Watch videos of world of Antiquity. Its an eye opener for me.
why do people assume humanity was stupid thousands of years ago? Egyptians, Rome and the Arabs are literally responsible for creating the science, astrology, philosophy and maths we use today, we know all the stuff we do today because of them. Just because we have technology and computers doesn't make us smarter than before.
I'm already amazed how genial were the romain engineer🤗 they found the best cement and the best underwater cement, in topographie were they ultra exact, apeducts and cisterns are masterworks, the wonders list is long👏👏👏 what a pitty with the black time afterwards, so much creativity and science is lost....
I experienced the Pantheon last night with very little knowledge going in. Videos/pics don't do it justice regarding its shear size. Good informative video, thanks!!
It wasn't til I visited Rome that I came to understand that the ground level rises over time, particularly when nature is allowed to reclaim an area. Plants and trees are made from water and air, and only a small amount of minerals from the soil, and as they grow and die the ground level rises.
i was in rome i have seen pantheton plaza san pietro fontana di trevi kathedral san pietro plaza espagne museums and churchs fantastic rome is beautiful city i love him
A remarkable feat of architecture. Egypt will always have a mark and remnants within Rome. 🙏🏿 I often wonder whom actually built these ancient wonders.
millions of people walk with their rough shoes on those ancient and well preserved roman marbles on the floor of the parthenon--and the italians have done nothing and dont do anything to prevent the serious wear and tear on the floor by so many shoes!!! it reminds one of the rampant neglect one sees in places like domus aurea and in fact, the town of pompeii. people just walk in and wonder around instead of walking paths being made above the floors for the pedestrians to stop this destructive process. thanks for showing that exact destructive process continue taking place under the feet of the tourist herds
The maintenance of the pantheon and others ancient monuments it is excellent and certainly will be even better if you avoid returning for the rest of your miserable existence to visit them.
The gilded rosettes have been melted and reshaped in the Bernini Baldacchino in St Peter, the Vatican, which is HORRIBLE! every time I think that the all that bronze was in the place where it belonged until the XVII century but then Bernini made his only unsuccessful piece of ecclesiastic furniture, depredating the Pantheon, I become pissed off. What a shame. What a loss. Lots of bronze though...
Ok. You HAVE to listen to this video at 0.5 speed. The speakers are so awesome at normal speed, but when you slow them down... OMG. Research has never been so fun.
+Smarthistory. art, history, conversation. I enjoy the videos very much, it's like being there with two awesome narrators telling me everything in a conversational way that I can relate to.
In our textbook for my art history class/ we learned that the leading architecture was Jacques Germain Soufflot- and he wanted to integrate Roman architecture and French/Baroque Classism
Ah, that is a different building. Soufflot designed the Ste-Geneviève in Paris which was renamed Le Panthéon. Learn more here: smarthistory.org/soufflot-the-pantheon-church-of-ste-genevieve-paris/
The Romans perfected the arch and its use as a structural support and as a pleasant building component! This is seen all around the exterior of the Pantheon.
there was an earlier structure referred to as the Pantheon and it was commissioned by Marcus Agrippa. The bricks in the main body of barrel have a stamp from the reign of Hadrian. if it had existed in it's current form during Augustus's reign it would have been a revolution, poets and historians would have raved openly about it as they did about other buildings of Augustus's time. We have plenty of evidence that it was built by Hadrian. The inscription is prove of the honor and respect that Agrippa was still held in more than a century after his death. He was the shit.
The concept has been replicated in many other buildings including the "Tempio di Possagno" -the greatest of neo-classical sculptors Antonio Canova financed this later building so close to my place of birth.The concept of the dome inspired Byzantine architecture and such churches as the Agia Sophia in Istanbul and Islamic structures like the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and you can even detect the fainter echoes in the Taj Mahal in India ad the churches in Moscow and other Russian cities.
Exactly. My understanding isn't perfect, but I believe they would've had a wooden structure beneath it, concrete poured over the top, then the wood removed. Much like a bridge. If you've been there and look hard enough, you notice that each coffer is not straight and equal, hinting that there was wood, as it would've been handcut.
The barrel (drum) supports the weight of the dome, which was made lighter by the coffering wherein large amounts of concrete could be omitted without compromising strength. Also, the drum has integral brick relieving arches, many of them visible externally in the drum and the lower rotunda. The relieving arches distribute the loads of the dome to the piers in the soil under the whole structure.
I have seen it, over a decade ago. It always made me a bit mad that the church used this building for it's own needs when it was built for the Gods of Rome. I feel the same way about Hagia Sophia which was originally an Orthodox church then made into a catholic church and then a Islamic mosque and finally a museum.
Augustus Caesar built this in honor of his friend and General, Marcus Agrippa, who helped him become emperor (or excuse me...Imperator...Augustus tried to downplay himself lol). You can still see M. Agrippa on the outside writing over the Corinthian columns.
The Pantheon was built by Marcus Agrippa, a close associate of Augustus. It was remodeled later under the Emperor Hadrian.. Marcus Agrippa's original hand in construction is plainly stated on the pediment, for those who can read simple Latin.
Based on brick marks, historians have concluded that this hypothesis is not correct. The pediment inscription seems to reference the older structure in the way that we use plaques to mark buildings that once stood in a given location.
lol. Whenever I see Hadrian now, I think of that audacious lady giving him a hard time.. I'm not extremely interested in these ancient temples, but I do like the squares on the dome and the Corinthian capitals.
Dioioego ok...perhaps it’s original but has been heavily restored...I can’t see how something that’s been walked on for 2000 years could look so spanking brand new.
Dioioego the marble on the Interior walls of Hagia Sophia is in very good condition and in its use as a mosque, the floor was covered in carpet which actually protected it. Its the centuries before that , that the floor suffered wear and tear, due to centuries of foot traffic. You can see where soldiers would stand guard there are indentations in the floor. This is in complete contrast with the pantheon”s pristine floor.
Thank you for the explanation. I heard that the Oculus is for smoke to escape, since they still sacrificed burning the whole Cow to their Gods inside that building. I figure it is almost like a chimney in an Indian Wigwam, that function as ventilation too.
Who the fuck told you that its to let light in and would have probably illuminated certain statues of gods at specific times of time day as it would be pretty cool as you go pray the statue illuminates before you plus it would keep foot travel down and therefore maintenance
From July 2023, it's no longer free to enter the Pantheon. Don't forget to also view the ruins of a Temple of Neptune that is adjoined to the back of the Pantheon.
@@donavenmoore1591 I've always been interested in these ancient structures and how they were built and the architecture is amazing. We don't even build structures like that now. I understand that the Emperor designed. But who built it. I'm sure he didn't lift a finger
Little Correction, it was renovated by Hadrian, or rather rebuilt after it burned down due to a lightning strike. As it states on the front of the building, M·AGRIPPA·L·F·COS·TERTIVM·FECIT, which means Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, Consul for the third time, built this.
They should close the window on the top with glass, or rain will enter, it ruins the experience for people visiting. it's also harder to climatize the interior with an opening like that, it's 9m wide i think. i love the pantheon.
Adding in the other people talking in the background is incredibly distracting. It's hard to focus on what the narrators are saying. It was a chore to get through this video.
We don't add in voices. We record on site and the Pantheon is a crowded place. We think this conveys a reality that is valuable-we love that so many people want to visit such an old structure. We also think it is important that we are experiencing the work of architecture directly as we discuss it.
@@smarthistory-art-history I appreciate your reply. That makes sense. I thought the content was incredibly interesting, but audio processing issues hold me back from enjoying it. It's really frustrating, but not really your fault. I'm sorry for being snide in my original comment.
@smarhistory and khan academy I like your videos especially about the art and architecture. But I would love to see analyses of non western works as well instead of such a Eurocentric focus
fuckyoutube i aintchaning my name yes I agree. I'm happy to see that the AP Art History courses have been revised for a more globalized appreciation for Art.
