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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 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.
In 2024, a complete reconstruction of the Colossus of Constantine in 1:1 scale, designed and executed by Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Preservation, was installed. Thanks to the few but evocative original fragments, preserved in the courtyard of Palazzo dei Conservatori, it was possible to reconstruct the statue in its imposing ...
Curia Julia, official meeting place of the Roman Senate (built by Julius Caesar, 44 BC; later reconstruction by Diocletian, 305 AD) Tabularium, the records office of Rome; inside is the Tabularium Museum; Portico Dii Consentes ("Portico of the Harmonious Gods") Atrium Vestae, the house of the Vestal Virgins.
ROME (Reuters) -The Arch of Constantine, a giant ancient Roman arch next to the Colosseum, was damaged after a violent storm hit Rome, conservation authorities said on Tuesday. In a statement to ...
The honorary arch, which is nearly 70 feet tall, was erected in 315 A.D. to celebrate the victory of Emperor Constantine over Maxentius after the battle at Milvian Bridge in Rome.
Reconstruction of the Column of Arcadius. The Column of Arcadius (Greek: Στήλη του Αρκαδίου, Turkish: Arkadyos Sütunu or Avrat Taşı) was a Roman triumphal column in the forum of Arcadius in Constantinople built in the early 5th century AD.