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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 head is a fragment of a larger, twice life sized, statue of the Emperor Constantine the Great. [1] It stands to a height of 42 cm, and is 27 cm wide and 30 cm deep. It measures 17.5 cm in diameter at the base of the neck as it now survives. [3] The face is clean shaven and he wears a corona civica. The axis of the neck suggests that the ...
The Column of Constantine (Turkish: Çemberlitaş Sütunu; Greek: Στήλη του Κωνσταντίνου Α΄; Latin: Columna Constantini) is a monumental column commemorating the dedication of Constantinople by Roman emperor Constantine the Great on 11 May 330 AD.
Archaeologists described the 1,700-year-old Italy find as “remarkable” and “monumental.” Letter from Roman emperor leads to discovery of cult temple hidden beneath parking lot Skip to main ...
Head of a bronze colossus of Constantine, now in the Capitoline Museums [189] Constantine entered Rome on 29 October 312 [190] [191] and staged a grand adventus in the city which was met with jubilation. [192] Maxentius' body was fished out of the Tiber and decapitated, and his head was paraded through the streets for all to see. [193]
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 Statue of Constantine the Great is a bronze statue depicting the Roman emperor Constantine I seated on a throne, commissioned by York Civic Trust and designed by the sculptor Philip Jackson. It was unveiled in 1998 and is situated on Minster Yard , outside York Minster .
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 ...