Tod A. Marder - The Pantheon: From Antiquity to the Present

The Pantheon is one of the most important architectural monuments of all time. Completed by Emperor Hadrian in approximately AD 125 on the site of its Augustan predecessor, it brilliantly displays the spatial pyrotechnics emblematic of Roman architecture and engineering. The Pantheon provides an up-to-date account of new research on this best preserved of all ancient buildings from the time of its construction to the twenty-first century. Each chapter addresses a specific fundamental issue or period; together, the chapters shed light on essential aspects of the Pantheons creation and establish the importance of its checkered history for the understanding of its ancient fabric and heritage, its present state, and its special role in the reception of ancient architecture and the very image of modern Rome.

TOD A. MARDER is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He has lectured and published widely on the Pantheon, the art and architecture of Bernini, and many related topics. He is the author of Berninis Scala Regia at the Vatican Palace: Architecture, Sculpture, and Ritual (Cambridge University Press) and Bernini and the Art of Architecture , which received the thirty-fifth Daria Borghese Prize for best book on a Roman topic by a non-Italian author. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and currently holds the Rudolf Wittkower Professorship at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome.

MARK WILSON JONES is Associate Professor in Architecture at the University of Bath. His research, which has been funded by the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, concentrates on ancient architecture and its design, along with the ramifications for developments since the Renaissance. He is the author of Principles of Roman Architecture , the only book to be awarded both the Banister Fletcher Prize and the Alice Davis Hitchcock Prize, and more recently of Origins of Classical Architecture .

For support in the editing of this book we owe a huge debt of gratitude to so many colleagues and friends that the risk of omitting even one of them cautions against our making a list that would necessarily be incomplete. The book was conceived some time ago while the editors were both in Rome, where Marder was a Fellow of the American Academy. The manuscript was completed while he was a Directors Guest at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbertide in Italy and references checked while he was Rudolf Wittkower Professor at the Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck Institut fr Kunstgeschichte), Rome. For institutional support while shuttling between Bath and Rome, Wilson Jones is most grateful to the British School at Rome, where he was once a resident scholar and from 2007 to 2012 was an advisory member of the Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters, as well as to the Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici e Paesaggistici for repeated access to the fabric of the Pantheon itself. Both editors wish to acknowledge material generously provided by The Bern Digital Pantheon Project, begun at the University of Bern, Switzerland, in 2006 and now kept at the Humboldt University, Berlin. Special thanks go to all of our authors, whose patience and perseverance in the enterprise surpassed any of the editors reasonable expectations. We wish also to acknowledge and thank Cambridge University Press and the sequence of our patient editors, from Beatrice Rehl and Asya Graf to Amanda Smith, Phyllis Berk, Janis Bolster, and for the index, Lin Maria Riotto. Finally, to our families and friends we owe those debts that only the truly forgiving can bear.