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Roman Architecture
The Roman Pantheon Roman Columns
Roman columns proved to be very
The Pantheon was built as a temple to the Roman Gods, while helpful to the Roman people. These
achieving many architectural feats during its time columns were used to support
buildings, acting as a vertical
support. Some famous ancient
Roman buildings that used Roman
columns were the Colosseum, The
Temple of Peace, and the Pantheon.
There are three types of columns
that the Romans used; doric, ionic,
and corinthian. Doric columns
were the simplest columns and
were considered to hold more
weight than the other two columns.
An ionic column was a column with
scro%-like imprints on the top and
bottom. The Corinthian column
was the most elegant column. It
was mostly made for show and
could not support
as much weight
as the other two
columns.
The Roman Pantheon was built the Pantheon is a massive dome Columns weren’t
somewhere between the time of 118 soaring over 143 feet tall. The Romans just used for
and 125 A.D by Hadrian, the current used support boards to support the large buildings
either. Roman
emperor of Rome. On the front of the concrete. Once it has dried, the
columns were also
Pantheon reads the words, "M. boards were removed. The pressure commonly found
AGRIPPA. L.F. COSTERTIUM. from the outside has so much tension supporting
FECIT.” This translates to, “Marcus pushing on the dome that it stays in sewers, theaters,
Agrippa, son of Lucius, having been place. This is just one of the many and palaces.
consul three times has made it.” The architectural feats that the Romans
Pantheon masters one of the Romans achieved.
best creations; the dome. Attached to
ROMAN ARCHES
One other visual gateway to Roman architecture and supported itself from the pressure applied to it.
was the arch. The arch may not have been made by Arches were so common in ancient Rome that they
the Romans, but they were definitely the could be found anywhere you went.
first civilization to put the arch to work. Arches were like columns in that they
Arches were used for many things, but could also be decorated. One of the most
specifically were used on theaters, popular buildings that uses the arch is the
aqueducts, and bridges, almost the same Colosseum. There are three levels of
as the Roman columns. The arches that arches, all supporting themselves on top
the Romans used were made of mainly of each other
brick or stone blocks that were built up,
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