👉 PANTHEON - ARCHITECTURE & LIGHT
✅ The new book by Marina De Franceschini and Giuseppe Veneziano, published by Rirella Editrice, is entitled “Pantheon. Architecture & Light”. It is about their discoveries of Archaeoastronomy in the Pantheon: the Arc of Light and the Square of Light.
âś… They are sacred illuminations that can still be seen today and had a very precise symbolic meaning.
👉 Direct link to the Book:
RIRELLA EDITRICE BOOKS (rirella-editrice.ch)âś… The book traces the millenary history of this extraordinary building, a masterpiece of ancient Roman architecture, which still today has the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world.
✅ It is the first of the Series "Studies of Archaeoastronomy", volumes with full color pictures, which explain the discoveries of Archaeoastronomy made by Marina De Franceschini and Giuseppe Veneziano in the Pantheon and in other Roman buildings, such as Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli, Castel Sant'Angelo and the Grotto of Tiberius in Sperlonga.
âś… In English and also Italian language.
INDEX
1. The largest Dome in the World
2. The Interior
3. A Brief History
4. The Theft of the Precious Marbles
5. Archaeoastronomy in the Pantheon: the dome as a celestial vault
6. The Illuminations of the Pantheon (Hierophanies)
7. Our Discoveries: the Arc and the Square of Light
7a. The Arch of Light
7b. The Square of Light
8. Symbolic Meaning
8a. The Illuminations of April
8b. The Illuminations of September
8c. Continuity in Divine Symbols
8d. Continuity of Luminous Symbols
9. The Gods of the Pantheon
9a. Ancient Sources: the "Kiss of the Sun"
9b. Hadrian and the Pantheon
Notes
Bibliography and List of References