Column of Marcus Aurelius fragment Photograph by Weston Westmoreland

Column of Marcus Aurelius fragment

by Weston Westmoreland

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Title

Column of Marcus Aurelius fragment

Artist

Weston Westmoreland

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

Column of Marcus Aurelius, Rome. Fragment.

Detail of the carvings base of the Roman victory Column of Marcus Aurelius in Piazza Colonna. It is a Doric column featuring a spiral relief, built based in the design of Trajan's Column.

Dating from 193 A.D., the column is 97.2 ft high, on a 33 ft high base, which in turn originally stood on a 9.8 ft high platform - the column in total is 130.3 ft. About 10 ft of the base have been below ground level since the 1589 restoration.

The column consists of 28 cylindrical blocks of Carrara marble, each 12 ft wide, hollowed out whilst still at the quarry for a stairway of 200 steps within the column up to a platform at the top. Just as with Trajan’s Column, this stairway is illuminated through narrow slits into the relief.

The spiral relief tells the story of Marcus Aurelius’ Danubian or Marcomannic wars, waged from 166 to his death. The story begins with the army crossing the river Danube, probably at Carnuntum. A Victory separates the accounts of two expeditions.

One particular episode portrayed is historically attested in Roman propaganda – the so-called "rain miracle in the territory of the Quadi", in which a god, answering a prayer from the emperor, rescues Roman troops by a terrible storm, a miracle later claimed by the Christians for the Christian God.

There is a full sized panoramic picture of this column and more Roman images one copy-paste away in my Roman Gallery at tinyurl.com/CarpeSPQR

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http://inspiringthoughtsandimages.com/

Weston Westmoreland.