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One of the best-preserved Roman temples still standing in the former territory of Roman Empire is the Maison carrée, an old Roman temple in Nîmes, southern France. It is a caesareum, a medium-sized Augustan provincial shrine dedicated to the Imperial cult. The neoclassical Église de la Madeleine in Paris, the St. Marcellinus Church in Rogalin, Poland, and the Virginia State Capitol in the United States were all influenced by the Maison carrée. In 1785, when Thomas Jefferson was minister to France, he had a stucco model of the Maison carrée made. Gaius and Lucius Caesar, adoptive heirs and grandsons of Augustus, were honored with a rededication of the Maison carrée in 4–7 AD. Both of them passed away at a young age. During the Middle Ages, the inscription honoring Gaius and Lucius was taken down. However, the arrangement and quantity of the holes on the front frieze and architrave, to which the metal letters had been attached by projecting tines, allowed a local scholar, Jean-François Séguier, to rebuild the inscription in 1758. Despite using the Corinthian order, the Maison carrée resembles a Roman temple in the Tuscan style as described in the works of Vitruvius, a modern Roman architect. Nearly one-third of the building-length is made up of a deep portico, or pronaos, on the facade, which is lavishly embellished with capitals and columns. In contrast to ancient Greek temples, its deep porch highlights the temple front. With six Corinthian columns beneath the pediment at each end, it has a hexastyle design. It is also pseudoperipteral, with twenty engaged columns set into the cella-walls. The cella has lost all of its historic ornamentation. Over the decades, the structure has undergone numerous restorations. The Maison carrée of Nîmes was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in September 2023. #History #Architecture #Castles

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