GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône, 13)
Subject(s) Theatre
  Details of the entablature and the soffit of the northern arcade
Author(s) Rebatu, François de
  King's Counsellor at Arles, seat of the seneschal (16..?-16..?)
Resource type Drawing (pen and ink)
Date 1655
Inscription

« Represantation de la Frise, Corniche, architraue, & ordre avec enrichissements du temple de Diane, comme se veoit en l'arc des Cordelliers à la Tour , que maintenant nous appellons de Rolland, qui estoit de la dependance dudit Temple; se tenant au coing de la maison du sr de Bochon; et se voit encor en partie »

References Aix-en- Provence, Bibliothèque Méjanes, ms. 902, p. 322
Bibliography

Constans 1921, pp. 278-297 ; Gros 1996, pp. 292-293 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 89-90 ; Rothé/Heijmans 2008, pp. 287-301

Remarks

Copy made from Jean Gertoux's manuscript (Aix-en-Provence, Bibliothèque Arbaud, ms. Q. 451). The original drawing is lost. The theatre was not identified as such until the second half of the 17th century

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