GALLIA ROMANA

Database of texts and images
Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

Ville Paris (Seine, 75)
Subject(s) Temple of Mercury
 
Author(s) Anonymous German artist (14..?-15..?)
 
Resource type Painting (Oil on wood panel)
Date c. 1500
Inscription
References

Paris, musée du Louvre, Peintures, Pietà de Saint-Germain-des-prés (inv. N ° 8561)

Bibliography

Sterling/Adhémar 1965, pl. 137 ; Buisson 1998, p. 517 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 113

Remarks

The Montmartre hill and a part of a wall that was probably part of the Temple de Mercury are visible in the background. According to Sauval, it was destroyed by a storm in 1618

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