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Constantine's Arch is an important example, frequently cited in surveys of art history, of the stylistic changes of the 4th century, and the "collapse of the classical Greek canon of forms during the late Roman period", [18] a sign the city was in decline, and would soon be eclipsed by Constantine's founding of a new capital at Constantinople ...
Decennalia inscription Imperial sacrifice relief Suovetaurilia relief Senatorial procession relief Arch of Constantine relief, featuring Constantine in front of the Five-Columns Monument. The Five-Columns monument is most widely recognized for its only preserved marble plinth, called the decennalia base.
Paved with marble slabs, the Forum of Constantine was richly decorated with columns (in the center rose the famous column of Constantine the Great), porticoes and triumphal arches. Nearby were a large bakers' market and the "Valley of Tears" alley, where slaves were traded.
The triumphal arch was built in the 4th century AD to celebrate the victory of Constantine - the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity - over his rival, Maxentius. Ancient Roman Arch of ...
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.
The existence of an arch dedicated to Marcus Aurelius is based on a cycle of twelve reliefs that would have been used to decorate it, eight of which were reused in the Arch of Constantine, three that are preserved in the Palazzo dei Conservatori (Capitoline Museums) and a final one that was destroyed and of which only a fragment remains, currently preserved in Copenhagen.
Constantine resettled some Sarmatian exiles as farmers in Illyrian and Roman districts and conscripted the rest into the army. Constantine reconquered the South of Dacia and the new frontier in Dacia was along the wall and ditch called Brazda lui Novac line supported by new castra. [286] Constantine took the title Dacicus maximus in 336. [287]
The triumphal arch and the ancient buildings around it (to which surviving ruins in the area possibly belong) were destroyed as a result of invasions, earthquakes (the central arch and the statue of Arcadius collapsed in 558; the rest of the arch was destroyed by the Constantinople earthquake of 740) and other natural disasters from the 5th ...