Pantheon (Exterior) 2

Pantheon (Exterior) 2An alternative angle on the exterior of the Pantheon in Rome the best preserved building of Roman antiquity, built by the Emperor Hadrian between roughly 118 and 128 AD on the site of an earlier temple put up by Marcus Agrippa in 27 BC. This view shifts the composition toward the junction of the portico and the drum the awkward, famously imperfect seam where the Greek temple front meets the uniquely Roman circular mass behind it. The Pantheon is one

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enormous in scale

His Hawthorne plates remain among the most reproduced images of Greek myth in English

catches her reflection in the shield

A print of John Singer Sargent's Temple of Bacchus — a watercolour of the Roman temple by one of the great painters of the Belle Époque

Mars was the Roman god of war and — crucially

A minimalist typographic print of the opening line of Homer's Iliad

beheads her

Strong contrast pulls the textural contrast forward

his wine and eventually his own daughter solidify under his fingers

He dipped his arrows in its poisoned blood

When Paris of Troy carried Helen off to Asia Minor