Arch of Constantine

Arch of Constantine

315

1392

Single Built Works

Italy (nation)

Rome (inhabited place)

Imperial (Roman)

triumphal arches (memorial arches)

spandrels (wall components)

relief (sculpture techniques)

Detail view of spandrel figure of the personification of a river god on passageway relief at the Arch of Constantine in Rome, Italy. "This huge triumphal arch (21 meters high), with three barrel-vaulted passageways, was erected to commemorate Constantine's victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312. It is just west of the Colosseum and dwarfs the nearby Arch of Titus. It incorporates recycled sculpture from earlier monuments, in part as some suggest, because creativity and technical skill had fallen off by this time period, but perhaps also because of a desire to associate Constantine with the "good emperors" Trajan, Hadrian, and Marcus Aurelius, whose monuments were cannibalized for sculpture. The faces of these emperors were recut to the features of Constantine,"--by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University.

marble (rock)

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