Pantheon, portico, plan (recto) Pantheon, portico, details and perspective (verso) 1500 - 1560

This detailed drawing of the Pantheon's portico, plan, details, and perspective, is made anonymously with pen and brown ink on paper. The drawing, with its brown lines and geometrical forms, projects an exercise in architectural understanding. The sheet meticulously lays out the building's structural elements—from the grand arches and ornate Corinthian capitals to the precise floor plans. The artist employs line as the fundamental tool to dissect and represent the Pantheon, exploring the dialogue between classical ideals and rational design. There's a tension here, between the organic flow of the hand-drawn line and the geometric shapes of the building. This tension perhaps embodies the larger architectural challenge of reconciling human creativity with structural form. We are invited to consider the building not just as a physical space, but as a conceptual framework, where proportion, space, and light converge.