posted on 2017-06-30, 00:00authored byG. Massiot & cie
It was built ca. 19-16 BCE by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, who was also the original patron of the Pantheon in Rome. The Maison Carrée is a perfect example of Vitruvian architecture in its most classical mode. Raised on a 2.85 m high podium, the temple dominated the forum of the Roman city, forming a rectangle almost twice as long as it is wide, measuring 26.42 m by 13.54 m. The façade is dominated by a deep portico or pronaos almost a third of the building’s length. It is a pseudoperipteral hexastyle design with six Corinthian columns under the Pediment at either end, and twenty engaged columns embedded along the walls of the cella. A large door (6.87 m high by 3.27 m wide) leads to the surprisingly small and windowless interior, where the shrine was originally housed. This is now used to house occasional art exhibitions. No ancient decoration remains inside the cella.
History
Date Created
1910-01-01
Date Modified
2017-06-30
Spatial Coverage
Nîmes
+43.837913+4.356578
Nîmes, Languedoc-Roussillon, France: 14 Rue de la Maison Carrée
Temporal Coverage
before or circa 1910
Cultural Context
Imperial (Roman)
Rights Statement
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