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The Colossus of Constantine (Italian: Statua Colossale di Costantino I) was a many times life-size acrolithic early-4th-century statue depicting the Roman emperor Constantine the Great (c. 280–337), commissioned by himself, which originally occupied the west apse of the Basilica of Maxentius on the Via Sacra, near the Forum Romanum in Rome.
The statue may have been originally erected at the Lateran Palace, then known as the "Domus Faustae" or "House of Fausta" after Constantine's second wife Fausta.By the 1320s, a head and hand were displayed between the church of St John Lateran and the Lateran Palace, near the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, which was then also thought to depict Constantine.
The main works include the Colossus of Constantine; the reliefs depicting the personifications of the Roman provinces from the Temple of Hadrian in Piazza di Pietra; two colossal statues of Dacians in grey-brown marble (from Trajan's Forum), purchased by Pope Clement XI in 1720 from the Cesi collection and placed at the sides; a statue of the ...
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The artist's despair before the grandeur of ancient ruins by Johann Heinrich Füssli Hand of the Colossus of Constantine. The Artist's Despair Before the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins (German: Der Künstler verzweifelnd vor der Grösse der antiken Trümmer) is a drawing in red chalk with brown wash executed between 1778 and 1780 by the Swiss artist Johann Heinrich Füssli.
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The column was surmounted by a statue of Constantine, probably nude, wearing a seven-point radiate crown and holding a spear and orb. Its appearance probably referred to the Colossus of Rhodes and to the Colossus of Nero in Rome; all resembled the solar deities Helios or Apollo. [4] The orb was said to contain a fragment of the True Cross.