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Designer Jacques-Germain Soufflot had the intention of combining the lightness and brightness of the Gothic cathedral with classical principles, but its role as a mausoleum required the great Gothic windows to be blocked.
Designer Jacques-Germain Soufflot had the intention of combining the lightness and brightness of the Gothic cathedral with classical principles, but its role as a mausoleum required the great Gothic windows to be blocked.
== In the News ==
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File:Dessins de Hilbert de sa courbe remplissante.png|Diagram of [[David Hilbert]]'s plan to refactor the Panthéon.
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* [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)]]
* [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)]]
* [[Paris (nonfiction)]]
* [[Paris (nonfiction)]]
== Fiction cross-reference ==
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File:Dessins de Hilbert de sa courbe remplissante.png|Diagram of [[David Hilbert]]'s plan to refactor the Panthéon.
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Revision as of 16:59, 14 July 2017

The Panthéon (Latin: pantheon, from Greek πάνθειον (ἱερόν) '(temple) to all the gods') is a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris (nonfiction).

It was originally built as a church dedicated to St. Genevieve and to house the reliquary châsse containing her relics.

After many changes, the building now functions as a secular mausoleum containing the remains of distinguished French citizens, including Marie Curie (nonfiction).

It is an early example of neoclassicism, with a façade modeled on the Pantheon in Rome, surmounted by a dome that owes some of its character to Bramante's Tempietto.

Located in the 5th arrondissement on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, the Panthéon looks out over all of Paris.

Designer Jacques-Germain Soufflot had the intention of combining the lightness and brightness of the Gothic cathedral with classical principles, but its role as a mausoleum required the great Gothic windows to be blocked.

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

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