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The Cinéma du Panthéon is a movie theater in Paris. It has been in uninterrupted operation for over 100 years. [1]: 26 ...
Soufflot's models were less the picturesque Baroque being built in modern Rome, as much as the picturesque aspects of monuments of antiquity. After returning to France, Soufflot practiced in Lyon , where he built the Hôtel-Dieu , like a chaste riverside street facade, interrupted by the central former chapel, its squared dome with ...
The Pantheon (UK: / ˈ p æ n θ i ə n /, US: /-ɒ n /; [1] Latin: Pantheum, [nb 1] from Ancient Greek Πάνθειον (Pantheion) '[temple] of all the gods') is a former Roman temple and, since AD 609, a Catholic church (Italian: Basilica Santa Maria ad Martyres or Basilica of St. Mary and the Martyrs) in Rome, Italy.
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 ...
San Giovanni in Persiceto – Municipal Theatre , in 1626 a hall was built as a theatre, in 1659 it was converted to a theatre with box seats, in 1790 it was replaced by an auditorium by architect Giuseppe Tubertini; Vicenza – Teatro Olimpico, the first covered theatre of the Modern Period in Europe, 1580
It took its name from the Pantheon, which had been converted in the 7th century AD into a Christian church dedicated to "St. Mary and the Martyrs" but informally known as Santa Maria Rotonda. [2] The piazza is roughly rectangular, approximately 60 meters north to south and 40 meters east to west, with a fountain and obelisk in the center and ...
Pantheon, London, England, an 18th-century place of entertainment; Pantheon of Illustrious Men, a royal site in Madrid, Spain; Pantheon of National Revival Heroes, a Bulgarian national monument and ossuary; Pantheon, Moscow, Russia, a planned but uncompleted memorial tomb; Pantheon Theatre, Vincennes, Indiana, U.S.