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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 18579672, member: 128351"]Bravo. I wish I had one of these RELIG AVG sestertii. I don't know if it is the facade of a temple, as seen from the outside, or if it is the baroque architectural frame of a niche in which stood Mercury's statue, the focal point of the temple interior.</p><p>The columns are not Telamons IMO, but herms with shoulders but no arms and simple square section pillars as bodies.</p><p>I could not find any Greek or Roman parallel for such an architecture. Ironically, the only parallel I have in mind is the gateway of the Vaux le Vicomte castle not far from my home. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1537742[/ATTACH] </p><p>It is typical 17th c. baroque architecture. It was built by Nicolas Fouquet, Finance minister of Louis XIV. After completion, Fouquet had the nerve to invite the king in person at the house-warming party. When the king saw this castle, he did some maths and concluded that in no case his finance minister could afford this unless he swiped from the till, and not moderately. Some time after Fouquet was arrested (by the famous d'Artagnan) and spent the rest of his life in jail.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 18579672, member: 128351"]Bravo. I wish I had one of these RELIG AVG sestertii. I don't know if it is the facade of a temple, as seen from the outside, or if it is the baroque architectural frame of a niche in which stood Mercury's statue, the focal point of the temple interior. The columns are not Telamons IMO, but herms with shoulders but no arms and simple square section pillars as bodies. I could not find any Greek or Roman parallel for such an architecture. Ironically, the only parallel I have in mind is the gateway of the Vaux le Vicomte castle not far from my home. [ATTACH=full]1537742[/ATTACH] It is typical 17th c. baroque architecture. It was built by Nicolas Fouquet, Finance minister of Louis XIV. After completion, Fouquet had the nerve to invite the king in person at the house-warming party. When the king saw this castle, he did some maths and concluded that in no case his finance minister could afford this unless he swiped from the till, and not moderately. Some time after Fouquet was arrested (by the famous d'Artagnan) and spent the rest of his life in jail.[/QUOTE]
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