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Wikipedia: The Pantheon is a building in Rome, commissioned by Marcus Agrippa as a temple to all the gods of Ancient Rome, and rebuilt by Emperor Hadrian in about 126 AD. A near-contemporary writer, Cassius Dio, speculates that the name comes from the statues of many gods placed around the building, or from the resemblance of the dome to the heavens. Since the French Revolution, when the church of Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, was deconsecrated and turned into a secular monument, the Panthéon, the generic term pantheon may be applied to any building in which illustrious dead are honoured or buried.
![[Antoine Desgodetz's elevation of the Pantheon in Les edifices antiques de Rome, Paris, 1779]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/DesgodetzPantheon_s.jpg "Antoine Desgodetz's elevation of the Pantheon in Les edifices antiques de Rome, Paris, 1779")
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![[Model of the Pantheon]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/PantheonRomeModel_s.jpg "Model of the Pantheon")
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![[The interior of the Pantheon.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Roma_Pantheon_001_2_s.jpg "The interior of the Pantheon.")
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![[360 Degree view of the interior of the Pantheon.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Pantheon_360_s.jpg "360 Degree view of the interior of the Pantheon.")
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![[The Assumption Church, Puławy, Poland]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Pulawy_kosciol_wniebowziecia_nmp_s.jpg "The Assumption Church, Puławy, Poland")
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![[Tomb of Umberto I]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Umberto_tomb_pantheon_2_s.jpg "Tomb of Umberto I")
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![[The interior of the Pantheon in the 18th century, painted by Giovanni Paolo Panini]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Pantheon_panini_s.jpg "The interior of the Pantheon in the 18th century, painted by Giovanni Paolo Panini")
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![[Rome's Pantheom]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Pante_C3_B3n_Roma_1_s.jpg "Rome's Pantheom")
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![[Bust of the painter Raphael, above his tomb in the Pantheon]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Pantheon_raphael_bust_arp_s.jpg "Bust of the painter Raphael, above his tomb in the Pantheon")
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![[The interior of the Pantheon.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Pantheon_2C_Rome_s.jpg "The interior of the Pantheon.")
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![[The Pantheon dome]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Pantheon_cupola_s.jpg "The Pantheon dome")
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![[Tomb of Raphael]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Pantheon_raphaels_tomb_s.jpg "Tomb of Raphael")
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