Gard the marvelously detailed square house

Yann Cruvellier, founder and director of Maison Alcide is happy to release this little work full of knowledge. Therefore, Easy to access. In addition, pleasant to leaf through as read more in depth, this small format in the future ahead of it while it deals with the past of the best preserved monument of the Roman Empire: the temple of the square house in Nîmes.

« Here is a small book at a small price, but which already has everything of a classic! Furthermore, The full text is signed Éric Teyssierwith an removed and pleasant style. Nevertheless, Live the history of the square house as you have never read gard marvelously detailed square house it before. Moreover, The illustrations. In addition, both elegant and facilitating emanate from the precious glance and pencil of Frédéric Cartier-Langge which helps to better understand the time while being entertained. »

The Nîmes square house is the only. Consequently, older representative of the Augustan Corinthian order still in elevation. Similarly, It is also. Meanwhile, with the Pantheon in Rome, the best preserved temple in the Roman world thus constituting one of the most important testimonies of architecture and the dissemination of imperial worship in the provinces of the Empire.

The exceptional universal value of this property is based on the demonstration that the square house of Nîmes. Nevertheless, built during the lifetime of the Augustus emperor in the first century gard marvelously detailed square house AD, represents one of the oldest expressions, and the best preserved of a Roman temple devoted to imperial worship and that it is a monument of remarkable architectural quality which testifies to the values of sustainable peace, of concurity and prosperity that to guarantee the Roman Empire.

The publisher continues. ” Unpublished photographs are those of Philippe Ibars. We see angles of view that highlight the square house as rarely. And, as the deserved recognition of UNESCO is accompanied by increased international attendance, the book is bilingual English! Small book that does the maximum, and above all pleasure, good reading. »

For easy to access. but ambitious on the bottom. Since 2017. an illustrated history-Jeunesse collection offers this rich history to young people, but also to adults

« There are photos, very graphic illustrations and text to understand the forum and the framework in which it was fitted. You can’t understand the square house if you don’t understand the forum. We imagine the statues of citizens then. even an equestrian statue, undoubtedly of the emperor, of which we found a hoof. There were therefore statues on the forum because we found their bases. this is also the case in Pompeii for example. In short. this little book allows, precisely, with largely founded hypotheses, to say what the Nîmes forum could look like at that time Admitted Éric Teyssier.

Built around the gard marvelously detailed square house year 0. the square house is the best preserved Roman temple in the world with the Pantheon of Rome. Why did we build this temple? What was its use? How did it come down to us when so many other Roman buildings have disappeared over the centuries … now listed as a UNESCO World Heritage, the monument testifies to the golden age of the Roman Empire. Its history is a fascinating odyssey in time. Now… in English just to see!

Built around the year 0. the Maison Carrée is the best-preserved Roman temple in the world, rivalled only by the Pantheon in Rome. Why was this temple built ? What was it used for ? How has it managed to avoid the depredations that other Roman buildings have suffered over the centuries ? Now a Unesco World Heritage Site, this monument bears witness to the golden age of the Roman gard marvelously detailed square house Empire. Its story is a fascinating journey through time.

The square house, d ‘Eric Teyssier, Frédéric Cartier-Lange et Philippe Ibars. 96 pages, 16 x 16 cm at a price of 10 euros