GALLIA ROMANA
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| Ville | Metz (Moselle, 57) |
| Subject(s) | Odeon or theatre |
| Author(s) | Anonymous engraver, after an original drawing by Claude Chastillon |
| Resource type | Woodcut, 16,8 x 40 cm. |
| Date | 1614 |
| Inscription | « LES RVINES TRESANTIQVES DVN AMPHITEASTRE QVI CE VOIT ENCORES A PRESENT AV BORD DE LA MOZELLE DANS LA VILLE DE METZ. 1.6.1.4. » / « Par C. Chastillon » |
| References | Chastillon 1641, ed. cit. 1655, [pl. 256] |
| Bibliography | Dumoulin 1930 ; Weigert 1951, pp. 307-381 ; Herme-Renault 1981, pp. 141-163 ; Frézouls 1982, p. 332 ; Pastoureau/Lestringant 1984, p. 104 ; Ravaux 1998; Buisseret 2000, pp. 69-73 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 77-78, 125 ; Flotté 2005, pp. 88-94 |
| Remarks | The engraving shows the remains of an entertainment venue (a section of the exterior wall) constructed along one of the tributaries of the Moselle River that he identified as an amphitheatre. Chastillon made two other illustrations of the same subject ( 1- 2) |
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