Pantheon Portico Looking up the columns to the ceiling of the portico at the Pantheon, the lone intact survivor of ancient Rome's great buildings. While this image is somewhat abstract, I wanted to convey the enormity of the building. The Pantheon is much larger than I realized from the pictures I had seen. It was originally built from 27 to 25 B.C. as a Roman "temple of all the gods" (pan=all and theos=gods). It was rebuilt around 120 A.D. by the Emperor Hadrian. You can see Hadrian's homage to Agrippa, the original architect, in this shot (look at the inscription above the portico). Most of these columns are original and made from huge single pieces of granite. LENS: 17-35 at ~17mm | FILM: Fuji Velvia | EXPOSURE: f/22 at 5 minutes | DATE: 10/03 |