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| About the Pantheon Institute |
Our Name  The Pantheon of Rome is considered to be the most intact and well preserved building that remains from the Roman Empire. It has transcended time with its universality allowing it to be highly admired and studied so much that its infamous domed rotunda joined with a rectangular portico has become one of the most influential buildings in the history of architecture. The Pantheon was built under the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian from 118 to 125 AD upon the foundations of an earlier rectangular temple constructed by Augustus’s close friend and adviser Agrippa in 25 BC. One remarkable aspect of the Pantheon is that it was the largest single span dome until the nineteenth century and as a result “has left its stamp upon architecture more than any other building.” (MacDonald, WL) The Pantheon is recognized as being one of the most influential, if not THE most, buildings in the history of architecture. According to architectural historian William McDonald, the Pantheon's theme “was unity-unity of gods and state, of people and state, and unity of the perpetual existence and function of the state with the never-ending revolutions of planetary clockwork……to unify unities is to produce the universal, and this is perhaps the Pantheon’s ultimate meaning.” Likewise the Pantheon Institute seeks to unite. To unify the students with the city of Rome and pursuit of harmony through specific and harmonic proportions of learning, experiencing and performing in the Eternal City. |
The Pantheon Institute was founded in 2007 in Rome, Italy to provide quality academic programs for students of US colleges and universities. In 2008 the Institute began sharing resources and eventually merged with the La Magia Institute in Rome, to create the most centrally located study abroad program in the city.
 
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