Pantheon (Interior)

Pantheon (Interior)A black and white print of the interior of the Pantheon in Rome a perfect sphere inscribed into a cylinder, lit by a single circular oculus at the apex of Hadrian's 43 metre dome. Seven niches around the drum hold altars and tombs; the floor, re laid but faithful to the Roman original, still tilts slightly toward hidden drains that catch the rain that falls through the open eye of the building. The Pantheon was built by the Emperor Hadrian between

drawing Aphrodite upright on her scallop shell with her long red-gold hair unbound

The sculpture's realism is merciless and unheroic

Seen alongside its counterpart — the right hand loosely holding the stones at David's hip — the asymmetry of the two hands tells the psychological story of the statue

he crossed freely between worlds: he carried messages between gods and mortals

famously imperfect seam where the Greek temple front meets the uniquely Roman circular mass behind it

The sculpture takes its modern name from the gardens of the Palace of Versailles

After Achilles' death

the Pegasus almost a rocking-horse silhouette

The pose here is not a static presentation but an instant of motion

from the violent act that opens Hesiod's Theogony: Cronus castrates his father Uranus and flings the severed flesh into the sea

the Palazzo Labia

Its defining feature: for every head struck off