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On this trip Soufflot made a special study of theaters. In 1755 Marigny, the new Director General of Royal Buildings, gave Soufflot architectural control of all the royal buildings in Paris. In the same year, he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Architecture. In 1756 his opera house opened in Lyon. The Panthéon, Paris.
The Cinéma du Panthéon is a movie theater in Paris. It has been in uninterrupted operation for over 100 years. It has been in uninterrupted operation for over 100 years. [ 1 ] : 26
The UX (short for Urban eXperiment) is an underground organization of Urban explorers that improves hidden corners of Paris.Their work includes restoring the Panthéon clock, [1] building a cinema — complete with a bar and a restaurant — in a section of the Paris Catacombs underneath the Trocadéro, restoring medieval crypts, and staging plays and readings in monuments after dark.
The principal works remaining from this period include the sculptural group called The National Assembly, commemorating the French Revolution; a statue of Mirabeau, the first man interred in the Pantheon, by Jean-Antoine Ingabert; (1889–1920); and two patriotic murals in the apse Victory Leading the Armies of the Republic to Towards Glory by ...
The square in front of the Pantheon is called Piazza della Rotonda. The Pantheon is a state property, managed by Italy's Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism through the Polo Museale del Lazio. In 2013, it was visited by over six million people. The Pantheon's large circular domed cella, with a conventional temple portico ...
Ystad (Sweden) – restored municipal theatre of 1894, large collection of scenery by Swedish theatre artist, Carl Ludvig Grabow. Halden – Fredrikshald Theatre, built in 1838 to plans by Balthazar Nicolai Garben. Aarhus – Helsingör Theatre; the building dates to the year 1817 and was originally in Helsingør.
A new discovery at the Colosseum in Rome proves ancient Romans had a modern approach to stadium seating. According to Discovery News, ongoing restoration in the 2,000-year-old monument has ...
Cross-section of the Pantheon's rotunda. A rotunda (from Latin rotundus) is any roofed building with a circular ground plan, and sometimes covered by a dome.It may also refer to a round room within a building (a famous example being the one below the dome of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.).