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     During the period from 1545-1550 Jacques Androuet du Cerceau engraved a series of eighteen etchings of antique arches and monuments, commingling fanciful representations (the temple of Minerva in Athens) and genuine Italian edifices (the arch of Titus, the arch of Verona, the Colosseum) and Gallo-Roman structures (the arch of Besançon, the Pyramid of Vienne, the mausoleum at Glanum, and the Pillars of Tutelle in Bordeaux). This collection, republished in 1560 with a title page (Liber novus…) was intended like the Édifices antiques romains (1584) for a wide cultured public with current tastes, curious about antiquities.

Frédérique Lemerle (Centre national de la recherche scientifique,
Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours) - 2013

Critical bibliography

P. Furhing, “Catalogue sommaire des estampes”, J. Guillaume & P. Furhing (ed.), Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, Paris, Picard, 2010, pp. 306-307.

H. Günther, “Du Cerceau et l’antiquité”, Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, J. Guillaume & P. Furhing (ed.), Paris, Picard, 2010, pp. 75-90.

H. von Geymüller, Les Du Cerceau. Leur vie et leur œuvre d’après de nouvelles recherches, Paris/London, Rouam/Wood & Co, 1887, pp. 302-304.

F. Lemerle, “Jacques Androuet du Cerceau et les antiquités”, Journal de la Renaissance, 2, 2004, pp. 135-144.

F. Lemerle, La Renaissance et les antiquités de la Gaule, Turnhout, Brepols, 2005, pp. 74-76.