Maison+Carre


 * The Maison carree was built on 16 BC and it was reconstructed with the pass of the years. It is formed by twon large adjoining buildings. The Maison Carree is in Nimes, southern France .It is one of the best preserved temples to be formed. anywhere in the Roman empire.**

The temple dominated the Roman city, forming a rectangle almost twice as long as it is wide. The facade is dominated by a deep portico or prenaos almost a third of the buildings length. It is a hexastyle design with six corithian columns under the pediment at either end, and it's pseudoperipteral (a pseudoperipteral building is one with free colums in the front, but the columns along the sides are engaged in the peripheral walls of the building.). Twenty engaged columns are embended along the walls of the cella.

One of the important people eas Marcus Uepsaniw Agrippa, who was the one that reconstructed the Maison Caree.

It was built c. 16 B.c. and reconstructed in the following years, by Marcus Uipsaniw Agrippa, who was also the original patron of the Pantheon in Rome



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiso_carr%c3%a9e Andrea Lopèz Natalia Aguirre