Showing posts with label Architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Architecture. Show all posts

April 04, 2015

"D" is for Dome

It's a thrill to stand beneath the round coffered ceiling of the Pantheon in Rome. I gazed up at the sky through the open central skylight as others have done for 2,000 years. (For the inevitable rainy days there are drainage holes in the floor beneath the opening.) And until the Renaissance the Pantheon had the largest dome in the world. 



The Pantheon, Rome