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The Statue of Constantine the Great is a bronze statue depicting the Roman emperor Constantine I seated on a throne, commissioned by York Civic Trust and designed by the sculptor Philip Jackson. It was unveiled in 1998 and is situated on Minster Yard, outside York Minster.
The statue has formed part of the displays of the Yorkshire Museum since its opening in 1830. The 2006 exhibition Constantine the Great: York's Roman Emperor, which featured the head as its central piece, [6] was described as "the most important archaeological-historical loan exhibition to have been held in a provincial British museum". [7]
A column found during excavations and a modern statue of Constantine the Great are located outside. [58] The multangular tower of York city walls is a multi-period structure based on the south-west corner tower of the Roman Legionary Fortress. It is within the York Museum Gardens.
Emperor Constantine, the 4th century ruler whose embrace of Christianity helped spread the Christian faith throughout the Roman Empire, now has a reconstructed statue befitting his larger-than ...
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In the later Byzantine state, it became a great honor for an emperor to be hailed as a "new Constantine"; ten emperors carried the name, including the last emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire. [314] Charlemagne used monumental Constantinian forms in his court to suggest that he was Constantine's successor and equal.
Head of Constantine the Great, York; Head of Eutropius; S. Statue of Mars, York This page was last edited on 2 June 2012, at 09:44 (UTC). Text ...
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