GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Nīmes (Gard, 30)
Subject(s) Sanctuary of the Fountain
 
Author(s) Serlio, Sebastiano
  Italian painter and architect (1475/90-1553/57)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1540
Inscription
References Serlio 1540, f. 3
Bibliography

Fiches/Veyrac 1996, pp. 241-268 ; Gros 1996, pp. 370-371, 440-441 ; Lemerle 2000-2, pp. 267-274 ; Frommel 2002, pp. 13-32 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 87 ; Lemerle 2013-2

Remarks

The building identified as a temple is in reality the place of worship in the Sanctuary of the Fontaine

Transcription 

« ne tacerņ de l’abbondante, e profondissima fonte, anzi vn lago, che č a pič del monte, sopra la quale si vede anchora il bello e bene inteso tempio Corinthio dedicato a la dea Vesta ».