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The Colosseum (/ ˌ k ɒ l ə ˈ s iː ə m / KOL-ə-SEE-əm; Italian: Colosseo [kolosˈsɛːo], ultimately from Ancient Greek word "kolossos" meaning a large statue or giant) is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the ...
Christ at El Picacho; Christ Blessing; Christ of Havana; Christ of Monteagudo; Christ of the Mercy; Christ of the Ozarks; Christ of the Sacred Heart; Christ the King (Almada) Christ the King (Lubango) Christ the King (Madeira) Christ the King Statue, Świebodzin; Christ the Protector; Christ the Redeemer (statue) Christ the Redeemer of the ...
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 Colosseum opened in the year 80 A.D. and was the largest building in Rome at that time. The stadium held gladiator games where warriors would battle until their death, but those games were ...
The Colossus of Rhodes straddling over the harbor, painting by Ferdinand Knab, 1886. The Colossus of Rhodes (Ancient Greek: ὁ Κολοσσὸς Ῥόδιος, romanized: ho Kolossòs Rhódios; Modern Greek: Κολοσσός της Ρόδου, romanized: Kolossós tis Ródou) [a] was a statue of the Greek sun god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by ...
Christ the Redeemer is perhaps the most famous statue of Jesus, located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.; Christ the King in Portugal. Christ the King is another very famous statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, located in Almada, overlooking the city of Lisbon, Portugal.
The statue earned the nickname ‘Christ with a ball.’ In the end, after surveying the land, a design was decided upon of Christ with his arms wide open in an Art Deco style.” View this post ...
Location of the Colossus (in red near the center) on a map of Rome. The Colossus of Nero (Colossus Neronis) was a 30-metre (98 ft) bronze statue that the Emperor Nero (37–68 AD) created in the vestibule of his Domus Aurea, the imperial villa complex which spanned a large area from the north side of the Palatine Hill, across the Velian ridge to the Esquiline Hill in Rome.