GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Autun (Saône-et-Loire, 71)
Subject(s) Theatre
  Inside cross-section
Author(s) Anonymous French artist (15..?-16..?)
 
Resource type Drawing (pen and ink)
Date Early 17th century
Inscription « L'amphiteatre, aultrement les Caves Juliot, à Autun »
References BnF, Collection Dupuy, ms. 667, f. 139
Bibliography

Fontenay 1889, p. 181 ; Rebourg 1993 pp. 72-76 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 113-116

Remarks

The drawings of Autun's antiquities were commissioned by Pierre Jeannin (known as the President Jeannin); they were gathered together by Peiresc some thirty years later. The edifice is erroneously identified as the amphitheatre

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