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The dome and Bernini's seven story altar canopy. It was made from bronze removed by one of the Barberini popes from the Pantheon in the 17th Century. To that point, the Pantheon, constructed in its current form in AD 125 , had survived until then largely intact. The pope's depredation led Roman's to remark, "What the barbarians didn't do, the Barberini's did." The canopies pillars are modeled after those of Solomon's Temple. According to one of our guidebooks, the actual columns looted from Solomon's Temple are now part of the four balconies that overlook the canopy. |
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