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Since the [[Renaissance]] the Pantheon has been used as a [[tomb]]. Among those buried there are the [[painter]]s [[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]] and [[Annibale Caracci]], the [[architect]] [[Baldassare Peruzzi]]. In the [[15th century]], the kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkrstytyfetfeytwcfwgvuyg yvu y87iughiufhgkitgtrnmjdmmhmnmPantheon was adorned with paintings: the best-known is the "Annunciazione" by [[Melozzo da Forlì]]. Architects, like [[Brunelleschi]], who used the Pantheon as help when designing the [[Duomo]], looked to the Pantheon as inspiration for their works.
During the reign of [[Pope Urban VIII]] (died 1644), the Pope ordered the bronze ceiling of the Pantheon's portico melted down. Most of the bronze was used to make [[bombard|bombards]] for the fortification of [[Castel Sant'
In 1747, the broad frieze below the dome with its false windows was “restored,” but bore little resemblance to the original. In the early decades of the twentieth century, a piece of the original, as could be reconstructed from Renaissance drawings and paintings, was recreated in one of the panels.
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