Colossus of Constantine

The colossal statue of Constantine the Great was a twelve-meter- high statue of marble.

Emperor Constantine the Great made ​​them after his victory against its competitors Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge about to make 312-315. As a demonstration of the newly -won power, the statue in the Basilica of Maxentius at the edge of the Roman Forum ( on the Via Sacra ) was built, which is therefore also called the Basilica of Constantine. The statue stood in the apse of the basilica, where it represented Constantine as rapt and deified emperors. The Akrolith statue of white marble showed the Emperor originally seated, right foot slightly preceded and in his left hand a scepter. He wore a Paludamentum (probably made ​​of bronze, possibly made ​​of wood) that covered most of his legs and his left shoulder. From the original individual fragments are today but only get: Both feet, one hand, the head and parts of the legs, arms and chest. They are exhibited in the courtyard ( Palazzo dei Conservatori ) of the Capitoline Museums in Rome. The surviving parts were discovered in the 15th century.

Reconstructions

The Berlin architecture professor and artist Yadegar Asisi has made ​​a 3D reconstruction of the statue in his project CCCXII Rome. It was issued inter alia Panometer.

For the Constantine exhibition in Trier 2007, the world's only museum copy of the head of marble was created. On the basis of a draft prepared by the sculptor Kai Dräger, the Prometheus Project GmbH and the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin workflows the copy was made ​​from a 20 -ton ingot of Carrara marble on the basis of high-resolution 3D scan data in different process steps. The Monumentalfuß was milled on the basis of 3D scan data of styrofoam and then poured in triplicate from concrete.