sartalon@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that the Pantheon (a former Roman temple, the name translates to "all gods" in ancient Greek), has actually been a Catholic church since 609 AD.English
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3 months agoThey looted the old structures (what was left to loot) then peed on them and said, “These are mine now.” (A professor I had once said, “What the barbarians didn’t do, the Barberini’s did.”)
On one hand, it helped preserve some significant and important art/architecture.
On the other hand they looted, “christ-washed”, and destroyed so much. Even their own art over the centuries.
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