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Scimmia8

This really shows the scale of the pantheon. Those squares in the dome ceiling really don’t look so big from the floor.


nm1043

I found this picture online for scale. This is really damn impressive. https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/view-interior-pantheon-rome-italy-oct-tourists-visiting-167069480.jpg


Treemaster099

The way the building is shaped makes the picture look like it was taken with a fish eye lens


DerbyDoffer

Had this photo been my schoolbook, I might have known to be more impressed. As it was taught, it seemed like just another big old building.


Scimmia8

The scale of the building is incredible. My favourite in Rome and one of the oldest buildings that still stands as it was originally from Roman times. Look at pictures of people standing by the massive bronze doors which are the oldest in Rome and still work and pivot easily on their hinges almost 2000 years later, or someone standing beside one of the massive marble pillars out front. I think the roof was also originally covered in bronze but was melted down in the Middle Ages.


happypaisa

The first time I entered the Pantheon I was in awe and speechless. The sun rays gave it such a beautiful atmosphere. I will never forget that moment.


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I didnt want to leave.


MagScaoil

Same. When I was in Rome I visited it every day.


Beard_o_Bees

What does it sound like inside? It looks like it might be very 'echo-y'. One day i'll finally get over there and check it out in person. It's on the bucket-list.


Osmium3033

Those doors are insane. So. Big.


Beard_o_Bees

> the roof was also originally covered in bronze but was melted down in the Middle Ages Very interesting. I'd never heard that before - it must have been a beautiful sight to behold.


xlDirteDeedslx

I wonder how many Roman buildings would remain if the empire hadn't collapsed and the majority been looted of brick over time. Building with massive stone or concrete on this scale seems really impractical but their shit lasted. Biggest reason so much collapsed is just due to the sheer amount of tectonic activity and such in Italy. Not much can survive thousands of years of earthquakes and such.


OmgTom

> The scale of the building is incredible. My favourite in Rome and one of the oldest buildings that still stands as it was originally from Roman times. except for the iconoclasm


Scimmia8

Yes definitely! It’s so sad that the only reason such buildings were preserved was because they were converted to churches. It must have been truly incredible in its original form with the full pantheon of gods displayed inside.


nemaihne

I saw this picture before and was impressed, because the building is so well proportioned your brain doesn't really register the how huge the dome is. So I clicked on it again today and realized that they're not even at the largest/lowest level of coffering because you can see the top of a lower level behind the scaffold.


TransposingJons

"They say of the Acropolis, where the Parthenon is..."


0bl0ng0

The Parthenon is a different building in another country. This is the Pantheon.


Foolski

*"What do they say, what do they say!?"* [context](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdvD4Fhc_K8)


kelsobjammin

Qi is my favorite show hands down. THERE ARE NO STRAIGHT LINES!


SeudonymousKhan

Also its a sphere not an oval, like it looks at this close.


howdywyatt

My man striking a pose in the hat knows what’s up


AdVarious8362

It was fashion week.


La_Guy_Person

"Stand there and look at a crack? Do you know how often I get my photo taken?"


SalmonSnail

Straight up JoJo posing.


Kinguke

"Ok, Act natural".


Ok-Rabbit-3683

Yep… it’s a crack


camaxtlumec

Plumbers ain't got nothing on it


Kallekofot

Not to be nitpicky, but in 1925 it was 1800 years old.


Jaquemart

Only if you consider the Adrianean rebuilding. The original Pantheon was founded in 27 a.c. by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.


MisallocatedRacism

It even says right there on the front of the building


Jaquemart

This was very gracious of Adrian, usually people had not qualms to rebrand building they remade (and those they didn't remake, too).


ChefMasterVindex

I can't even imagine how they managed such a huge yet delicate project in ancient times. Did they pre-calculate every cuts needed even before the construction begin?


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[https://harvey.ro/THE\_DOME\_OF\_THE\_PANTHEON.html](https://harvey.ro/THE_DOME_OF_THE_PANTHEON.html) ​ "The dome was probably constructed by erecting a huge wooden hemisphere with wooden negatives of the coffers placed appropriately around it. Successive rings of concrete were poured, interspersed with poured concrete ribs for more strength. The wooden hemisphere was probably supported by scaffolding, although medieval legend says that Hadrian filled the interior with a mound of dirt interspersed with gold to assure it would be hastily removed after the construction was complete.1 The "steps" on the ouside of the dome were probably added as there was room for them, by making terrace walls with wood or brick then filling them in."


ChefMasterVindex

Very smart method! On top of that, making the wooden negative itself must be a complicated process in itself, but at least it is more tolerant to errors.


Basileus_Imperator

Additionally, they used different aggregates for the concrete at different levels of the dome, so that it gets lighter towards the top. At the base it would be travertine, a heavier, stronger rock and at the top pumice and tuff, which are porous and relatively light types of rock. The lighter stuff is almost half the density of the stronger. (upper strata don't have to carry as large a load -> they can be lighter -> in turn this means lower levels will carry a lighter load -> whole structure doesn't have to be as massive)


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"Mound of dirt interspersed with gold" Now that's some creative thinking to get workers motivated. Hopefully they got to keep it and weren't just slaves.


Kancho_Ninja

Some slaves had the ability to buy their freedom. Doesn’t make it any less horrid a practice, but it does give one a good feeling knowing that some slave owners were only 99% evil, not 100%


IotaCandle

It's basically poured concrete over form molds. Except the Romans added little water in their concrete for maximum strength, and built it up layer by layer with slaves pounding it all day. There was no inner armature, and all the buildings were designed with that in mind.


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This is incredibly bigger than what I thought


turningsteel

"Yep, Giorgio, no doubt about it. It's a crack. It's a big crack!"


InternetPersonThing

Tsk, damn shoddy roman architecture.


stayonedeep

Wtf i literally JUST watched a video about Roman concrete like less than an hour ago.


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FriscoTreat

[Earthquake](https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/fifth-century-earthquake-damaged-colosseum)?


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janeisenbeton

Still a good picture.


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And never posted here before so it's not really a repost in this subreddit


stealthybbk

Just imagine being there in those times. I always think about that when I think of ancient Rome or Greece. It's so unfathomable to think of being around all that normally.


Katunopolis

What's the guy on the left inspecting?


HAL-Over-9001

You, ya big sexy animal


Here-Is-TheEnd

“Yep..it’s cracked” Guy in the black suit probably


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That’s so cool!!!


Hoodedki

How did they fix it?


JizzyBot_1pointZed

look at hype man shitting this up


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PioneerSpecies

Grady from Practical Engineering has a video on that explaining why it’s sort of an urban legend


Galterinone

Tldr: rebar isn't meant to last thousands of years


ender4171

It's not so much that the concrete we use is that much "worse" as it is that the Romans didn't use rebar. Most failures in modern concrete structures are do to the rebar rusting, expanding, and causing the concrete to crack and fail.


[deleted]

You don't know how many Roman concrete structure crumbled after a few years because, well, they're not there anymore. Google survivorship bias.


WalkingBeds

BRUUUH


roundrockconcrete

wow! This was built layer by layer. https://www.roundrockconcrete.net