GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Nîmes (Gard, 30)
Subject(s) ‘Maison Carrée’
  Elevation of the facade
Author(s) Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques
  Engraver and architect (1511-1584/85)
Resource type Etching, 19,2-21,8 x 25,3-31,5 cm.
Date Between 1545 and 1549
Inscription « Le capitolle de nymmes dict apr[esent] la maison anticque »
References Arcs et monuments antiques, s.d., 17= Liber novus, 1560, 17
Bibliography

Geymuller 1887, pp. 302-304 ; Thomson 1980 ; Lemerle 2004, pp. 135-144 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 74-76, p. 85 ; Furhing 2010, pp. 306-307, 315 ; Leproux 2010, pp. 17-18 ; Lemerle 2013-2

Remarks

This engraving of the 'Maison Carrée' first appeared in a volume of 18 prints published without title, date or place of publication, probably between 1545 and 1549. The series was re-published in 1560 under the title of Liber novus

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