GALLIA ROMANA

Database of texts and images
Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

Ville Bordeaux (Gironde, 33)
Subject(s) Pillars of Tutela
  Perspective elevation
Author(s) Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques
  Engraver and architect (1511-1584/85)
Resource type Etching
Date c. 1545-1549
Inscription « le palais telle a Bordeaux »
References Androuet du Cerceau s.d., pl. 16
Bibliography

Geymuller 1887, pp. 302-304 ; Étienne 1962, pp. 187-191 ; Thomson 1980 ; Lemerle 2004, pp. 135-144 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 74-76, 104; Furhing 2010, pp. 306-307 ; Leproux 2010, pp. 17-18

Remarks

Built in the 3rd century and originally comprising 84 Corinthian columns, the edifice was demolished in 1677. One of a series of 18 plates, originally published published without title, date or place of publication, probably between 1545 and 1549, and republished under the title of Liber novus in 1560

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