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pantheon oculus surveys team RAD

perhaps the most extraordinary structure standing. when Hadrian built the pantheon in 126 AD, he said of the oculus, "the disk of daylight would rest suspended there like a shield of gold; rain would form its clear pool on the pavement below, prayers would rise like smoke toward that void where we place the gods."

 

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Uploaded on August 11, 2006
Taken on August 5, 2006