The Pantheon, Paris, France Baseball T-Shirt

The Pantheon, Paris, France The Pantheon is a building in Paris that was started to be built about 1757 by the architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot as the Church of Sainte-Geneviève to replace the older church of that name on the same spot. It was secularized during the French Revolution and dedicated to the memory of great Frenchmen, receiving the name Panthéon. Its design exemplified the Neoclassical return to a strictly logical use of classical architectural elements. The Panthéon is a cruciform building with a high dome over the crossing and lower saucer-shaped domes (covered by a sloping roof ) over the four arms. The facade, like that of the Roman Pantheon, is formed by a porch of Corinthian columns and triangular pediment attache...