The 13-meter statue of the emperor who recognized Christianity as an equal religion, Constantine the Great, reconstructed to the original scale, was exhibited in the garden of Villa Cafarili.
The reconstruction of the colossus is the result of a collaboration between the Capitoline Superintendency, Fondazione Prada and the Factum Foundation for Digital Technology.
The statue of Constantine (4th century AD) is one of the most significant examples of late antique Roman sculpture. Of the entire statue, discovered in the 15th century in the basilica of the emperor Maxentius, only a few monumental marble fragments remain, kept in the courtyard of the Palazzo dei Conservatori in the Capitoline Museums, such as the head and parts of the wrist, right arm, right knee and feet.
With the help of 3D-modelling technology, from the scanned images of the nine huge original parts and surviving models from the same period, the authors of the project recreate a realistic copy of the original.
Despite its enormous size, the statue of Constantine was by no means the tallest in ancient Rome. Nero erected a 30-meter colossus during his lifetime, hence the name of the Colosseum, built in its place following the reign of the Vespasian dynasty.
See in the video how the 13-meter statue was reconstructed.
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