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The column was made of brick, and covered with brass plaques. [3] The column stood on a marble pedestal of seven steps, and was topped by a colossal bronze equestrian statue of the emperor in triumphal attire (the "dress of Achilles" as Procopius calls it), wearing an antique-style muscle cuirass, a plumed helmet of peacock feathers (the toupha), holding a globus cruciger on his left hand and ...
One of the most famous touphas is that which surmounted the crown or helmet of the bronze equestrian statue of the emperor Justinian I atop the column of Justinian, erected by said emperor, which stood in the Augustaion square of Constantinople. [2] [3] The toupha was made of gilded bronze, with a design of peacock-feathers. It is known ...
A drawing by Nymphirios (a member of the entourage of Cyriac of Ancona) now in the library of the University of Budapest [14] shows the statue which surmounted the column raised by Justinian in 543/4 in the Augustaion in Constantinople and described at length by Procopius of Caesarea in his Edifices (I, 2, 5). The emperor, mounted on a horse ...
Works of embellishment were not confined to churches alone: excavations at the site of the Great Palace of Constantinople have yielded several high-quality mosaics dating from Justinian's reign, and a column topped by a bronze statue of Justinian on horseback and dressed in a military costume was erected in the Augustaeum in Constantinople in ...
A victory column, or monumental column or triumphal column, is a monument in the form of a column, erected in memory of a heroic commemoration, [1] including victorious battle, war, or revolution. The column typically stands on a base and is crowned with a victory symbol , such as a statue .
The hippodrome was filled with statues of gods, emperors, animals, and heroes, among them some famous works, such as a 4th-century BC Heracles by Lysippos, Romulus and Remus with the she-wolf Lupa, and the 5th-century BC Serpent Column. [4] The carceres had four statues of horses in gilded copper on top, now called the Horses of Saint Mark.
The pedestalizing and supersizing of the white male ruling class expresses too much racist conquest ideology — and too little art — to let these statues command our parks and plazas.
The column shaft is composed of very large porphyry column drums set on a white marble pedestal that is no longer visible. Its top is 34.8 m above the present-day ground level. Estimates of the original height of the column, without the statue that stood on the top, vary between 37 and 40 m; the monument as a whole would have been nearly 50 m tall.