The Panthéon’s Stability Already Questioned 1 by Pierre Patte in 1770
(2015) Masonnery Structures : Between Mechanics and Architecture — ISBN: [978-3-319-13002-6, 978-3-319-13003-3 (ebook)], p. 127-185, published
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- Conceived and begun by architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot in 1755, the construction of the Church of Ste. Geneviéve (later the Panthéon) in Paris was continued after his death by Jean Baptiste Rondelet. This impressive structure was the object of various publications. As early as 1770, Pierre Patte pointed out problems of its stability in his Mémoire sur la construction de la coupole projettée pour couronner la nouvelle église de Sainte Geneviève à Paris. This was the beginning of a polemic regarding the structure’s stability that involved some of the greatest scholars and architects of the day, and which was fundamentally a quarrel 18 between tradition and new ideas.
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Radelet-de Grave, P. (2015). The Panthéon’s Stability Already Questioned 1 by Pierre Patte in 1770. In Danila Aita, Orietta Pedemonte, Kim Williams (ed.), Masonnery Structures : Between Mechanics and Architecture (p. p. 127-185). Birkhauser. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13003-3_7