The Pantheon: A Solar Building

Hear from Richard Etlin about the degree to which the Pantheon can be considered a solar building and relates the solar activity there to the theme of portraying Rome’s rule over a world empire. He dives into two book chapters: “Architecture and the Sublime,” in The Sublime: From Antiquity to the Present, ed. Timothy Costelloe (Cambridge University Press, 2012), 230-273; and “The Pantheon in the Modern Era,” in The Pantheon: From Antiquity to the Present eds. Tod A. Marder and Mark Wilson Jones (Cambridge University Press, 2015), 380-422. Join us on Wednesday, October 8, 2025 from 5:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. ET.

Speaker:
Richard A. Etlin is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome

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