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Mark Wilson Jones explores how the architects of ancient Rome approached design. Drawing on new archaeological discoveries and his own analyses of Roman monuments, the author discusses how the ancient architects dealt with the principles... more
Thomas Jefferson dedicated his later years to establishing the University of Virginia, believing that the availability of a public liberal education was essential to national prosperity and individual happiness. His design for the... more
After new reasearch, something more about the symbolic meaning of the Arc of LIght and of the Square of Light, visible in the days of April 7th and September 4th. Further progress in this research is pubished in 2021 in the book... more
The Pantheon is one of the most important architectural monuments of all time. Thought to have been built by Emperor Hadrian in approximately 125 AD on the site of an earlier, Agrippan-era monument, it brilliantly displays the... more
Alla luce di nuove ricerche, un approfondimento sul significato simbolico dei fenomeni luminosi del Pantheon, l'Arco di Luce e il Quadrato di Luce, visibili nei giorni del 7 aprile e 4 settembre. Gli ultimi risultati di questo studio... more
All the threads of evidence point to the Greek world of the Hellenistic period as the fountain-head of the "ruler and compasses approach" to design, embodied in the centralized buildings of Hadrian's reign that represent one of the... more
The first page of the "Third book" (Venice, 1540) of Sebastiano Serlio describes the effect of natural light inside of the Pantheon. It provides also a wider exploration of the reception of antiquity about lighting system in the... more
Several contemporary sources suggest that Vincenzo de' Rossi (1525-1587) the well-known pupil of Baccio Bandinelli (1493-1560) was active as an architect, alongside his better-known work as a sculptor in Rome and Florence. A recently... more
This article reconsiders the possible statuary of the Pantheon in Rome, both in its original Augustan form and in its later phases. It argues that the so-called ‘Algiers Relief’ has wrongly been connected with the Temple of Mars Ultor and... more
The Pantheon in Rome has been depicted in countless paintings and measured drawings. This paper considers how the building and its subsequent representations express meaning through elementary geometric symbols, patterns, and proportions.... more