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The great dome of the Pantheon. The inside of the building is shaped like a perfect sphere was placed into a cylinder. The Pantheon dome was the largest dome until modern times. The dome on the Florence cathedral was the first in Europe to rival it, and it was not finished until the 1400s.

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