Pantheon (Exterior)

Pantheon (Exterior)A black and white print of the exterior of the Pantheon in Rome the best preserved building of Roman antiquity and, since 609 AD, the church of Santa Maria ad Martyres. The Corinthian portico opens onto the Piazza della Rotonda; behind it rises the circular brick and concrete drum that holds the largest unreinforced concrete dome ever built. The building was commissioned by the Emperor Hadrian and completed between roughly 118 and 128 AD, replacing an

Atlas's daughters

He flies to the gorgons' lair at the edge of the world

The statue was carved from a single block of Carrara marble and is now housed in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence

The Medici Vase itself is a monumental Pentelic marble krater carved in Athens in the 1st century AD

The bronze was a political commission from Cosimo I de' Medici — Perseus holding up the head of Medusa served as a Medicean warning to the defeated Florentine Republic

the Carrara marble's surface resolves to pure form — the carving reading with the clarity of drawing

skill as a huntress

Étienne Baudet (c

the birthplace of Apollo and of his twin sister Artemis

The figure is a satyr — faun in Latin — caught in mid-dance

Venus falls for Adonis

The fragment itself has a late-classical and Romantic charge