GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Nîmes (Gard, 30)
Subject(s) ‘Maison Carrée’
 
Author(s) Grasser, Johann Jacob
  Historian and theologian from Basel (1579-1627)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1607
Inscription
References Grasser 1607, pp. 38-39
Bibliography

Amy/Gros 1979 ; Fiches/Veyrac 1996, pp. 278-286 ; Gros 1996, pp. 157-159 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 85 ; Lemerle 2013-2

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« Post Amphitheatrum secundum locum hodie Domus quadrata, seu capitolium, ut vocant, ædificium magnificentissimum, pulcherrima columnarum serie suffultum & circa tectum exquisitissimis sculpturis exornatum, ut affirmem vix hodie sculptores inueniri qui in tenerrimo gypso præstent, quod illi durissimo saxo ingeniosissimè & fe[39]licissimè expresserunt »…