GALLIA ROMANA
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| Ville | Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône, 13) |
| Subject(s) | Palais Comtal (Palace of the Counts) / Mausoleum and Roman city gate |
| Elevation and plan | |
| Author(s) | Sangallo, Giuliano da |
| Florentine architect (c. 1445-1516) | |
| Resource type | Drawing (pen and ink) |
| Date | 1496 |
| Inscription | « QVESTA FAC[I]ATA SIE DELAPIANTA DISOTO DISENIATA » / « LA FAC[CI]ATA DIQVESTA PIA[N]TA CHOSI ISTA DIDENTRO LAVORATA COME DIFVORA EDE AVNA CITA SI CHIAMA GRASA CHIAMAVASI IN ANTICO AQVI O[G]GI MEZA ROVINATA EDERA TENPIO E FORTEZA A LA FINE DIPROVENZA » |
| References | BAV, Codex Barberini lat. 4424, f. 40v° |
| Bibliography | Gibelin 1787 ; Laurière 1885, pp. 210-220 ; Borsi 1985, pp. 204-206 ; Gros, 2001, p. 414 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 45-47, 84 ; Mocci/Nin 2006, p. 201-207, 371-376 |
| Remarks | Two constructions dating from Antiquity are visible on the plan, embedded within the 'Palais des Comptes' (destroyed between 1778 and 1786): the 'Tour de l'Horloge' which was a mausoleum and the south-eastern city gateway, comprising two towers – the 'Tour du Chaperon' and the 'Tour du Trésor' – united by a semi-circular wall. In the inscription, Giuliano da Sangallo mistakenly indicates 'Grasse', which he may have visited when returning from Avignon in 1496, as the modern name of the Roman town of Aquae Sextiae: in reality 'Aix-en-Provence' |
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