Les ruines de Paestum ou Posidonia, ancienne ville de la Grande Grèce: a vingt-deux Lieues de Naples, dans le Golfe de Salerne, levées, mesurées et dessinées sur les lieux, en l'an II
Les ruines de Paestum is a 1799 French survey of the Greek temples at Paestum, south of Naples, measured and drawn on site by Claude Mathieu de La Gardette for architects and antiquarians. The pictures are precise engraved elevations, sections and details of Doric columns, entablatures and pediments, with ruined stonework in the last plate, useful to a designer studying classical proportion and architectural line.














