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) Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques
  Engraver and architect (1511-1584/85)
Resource type Etching
Date 1560
Inscription « leguille de pilate dicte apnt » / » La piramide de Vienne »
References Androuet du Cerceau 1560, pl. 9
Bibliography

Geymuller 1887, pp. 302-304 ; Linzeler 1932, p. 69 ; Pelletier 1974, pp. 6-15 ; Thomson 1980 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 221-222 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2004, pp. 135-144 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 74-76, 96 ; Furhing 2010, pp. 306-307 ; Leproux 2010, pp. 17-18

Remarks

Second edition of Arcs et monuments antiques, published under the title Liber novus. The quadrifrons (square-sided) arch which constituted the base of the obelisk stood on the spina of the circus

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