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Built by Emperor Hadrian around a.d. 125 on an earlier site destroyed by fire, it achieved a marvel of engineering with its magnificent coffered dome: over 43 m (141 ft) in interior diameter (larger than St. Peter’s), exactly equal to its height.
It seems that one morning in 1965, the University of Virginia awoke to discover a cow perched on the dome of the school's Rotunda, fifty feet above the ground.
Inside, on the ceiling of the central octagonal dome, are Correggio’s greatest masterpieces, his frescoes of the Assumption of the Virgin (1530) where he achieved, in the truest sense, exalting emotion without the sentimentality of Mannerist imitators.
The rock on the Temple Mount from which he ascended, at or close to the site of the ruined Temple, was commemorated by the construction of the Dome of the Rock in 691.
The 1951 Festival of Britain (organized by the grandfather of the Labor minister now in charge of the Millennium Dome) still represented a culturally homogenous, industrial country.