How Marcus Aurelius got a proper homeStatue fits in well at Capitoline, but 'Muse' is mismatch at Colosseum

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: April 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Roderick Conway Morris
International Herald Tribune
04-22-2006
Seldom can ignorance have played such a vital part in saving a great work of art. The magnificent, larger-than-life-size gilded bronze equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius would almost unquestionably have been melted down during the wholesale destruction of pagan art in the centuries after the triumph of Christianity had it not been mistaken for an image of Constantine, the ruler who made the new faith the official religion of the empire and was subsequently sanctified. Probably cast in A.D. 176 to celebrate Marcus Aurelius's ...

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