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) Martellange, Étienne
  Jesuit architect (1569-1641)
Resource type Drawing (pen, ink and wash), 25 x 26,4 cm.
Date 1619
Inscription

« Vienne 1619 20 janv. » / « Veüe de la Pyramide de Vienne, en Dauphiné, le 20 jan.er 1619. »

References Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Estampes, UB 9a, pl. 134
Bibliography

Bouchot 1886, p. 49 ; Jaillet 1971, pp. 47-56 ; Pelletier 1974, pp. 6-15 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 221-222 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 78-79, 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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