GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Vienne (Isère, 38)
Subject(s) Pyramid
  Perspective elevation
Author(s) Sangallo, Giuliano da
  Florentine architect (c. 1445-1516)
Resource type Drawing (pen and ink)
Date 1496
Inscription « QVESTA E VNA SEPOLTVRA ANTICHA AVIENA »
References BAV, Codex Barberini, lat. 4424, f. 7v°
Bibliography

Pelletier 1974, pp. 6-15 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 221-222 ; Borsi 1985, p. 70 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 96

Remarks

The quadrifrons (square-sided) arch which constituted the base of the obelisk stood on the spina of the circus

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