GALLIA ROMANA

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Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

Ville Dijon (Côte-d’Or, 21)
Subject(s) Pseudo Roman fountain
  Perspective elevation
Author(s) Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques
  Engraver and architect (1511-1584/85)
Resource type Drawing on vellum (pen, black ink and grey wash), 43,5 x 63 cm. (fold-out page)
Date c. 1545-1550
Inscription « ceste ordonnance de Fontaine est dedans [...] Julius Cesar »
References Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Codex Icon. 191, f. 45
Bibliography

Thomson 1980 ; Lemerle 2004, pp. 135-144 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 74, 126 ; Furhing 2010, p. 326 ; Leproux 2010, pp. 17-18

Remarks

It is in fact the well of the Carthusian monastery of Champmol that is represented; Androuet du Cerceau made several drawings of it

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