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Trajan's Column (Italian: Colonna Traiana, Latin: Columna Traiani) is a Roman triumphal column in Rome, Italy, that commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's victory in the Dacian Wars. It was probably constructed under the supervision of the architect Apollodorus of Damascus at the order of the Roman Senate .
Trajan's successor Hadrian added a philosophical school adjacent to the piazza containing the Temple of Trajan. The building consisted of three parallel halls separated by annexes and was known as the Athenaeum ; it functioned variously as school, a venue for judicial proceedings, and an occasional meeting-place for the Senate.
A View of Trajan's Forum, Rome is an 1821 landscape painting by the British artist Charles Lock Eastlake. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It depicts a view of Trajan's Forum in Rome , dominated by Trajan's Column . The scene features both remains of Ancient Rome and much later buildings.
The reliefs of Trajan's Column produced in this period are considered not only masterpieces of Roman civilization, but of ancient art in general. [1] Reliefs on the Trajan's Column. The spiral-shaped column covered with reliefs was an absolute novelty in ancient art and became the most avant-garde arrival point of the Roman historical relief ...
The Basilica Ulpia was an ancient Roman civic building located in the Forum of Trajan. The Basilica Ulpia separates the temple from the main courtyard in the Forum of Trajan with the Trajan's Column to the northwest. [1] It was named after Roman emperor Trajan whose full name was Marcus Ulpius Traianus. [2]
Part of the tesserae are missing, having been stripped by Trajan's workers and re-used in the new construction. Components of the mosaic identified to date include: Apollo, the Greek god of music, poetry, prophecy, light, and healing, and "Leader of the Muses" capitals and columns decorated with garland plants; several muses.
The Column of Marcus Aurelius (Latin: Columna Centenaria Divorum Marci et Faustinae, Italian: Colonna di Marco Aurelio) is a Roman victory column in Piazza Colonna, Rome, Italy. It is a Doric column featuring a spiral relief: it was built in honour of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and modeled on Trajan's Column. The Imperial Monument is ...
A Roman carroballista from the time of Trajan. Carroballista was an ancient, cart-mounted ballista, a type of mobile field artillery.According to the Roman author Vegetius (Epitoma rei militaris II.25), each legion had 55 carroballistae (one per centuria) which were arrow/bolt-shooter of the cheiroballistra type.