Roman Imperial architecture
A study entry for Roman public and religious architecture around the age of Hadrian, represented by the Pantheon.
In many projects, an individual architect is uncertain, while imperial patrons and workshops took the leading role.
Concrete, domes, and vaults made immense interiors possible.
Renaissance and Neoclassical architects later treated Rome as an authority.
The Pantheon survives through preservation and changes of use and can still be visited.
This entry concerns a period and its workshops rather than an individual biography.
