GALLIA ROMANA
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Ville | Autun (Saône-et-Loire, 71) |
Subject(s) | Theatre |
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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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