Column of Marcus Aurelius: Overall view, of base and column // CurateND success fail Apr MAY Aug 22 2019 2020 2021 5 captures 22 May 2020 - 13 Apr 2021 About this capture COLLECTED BY Collection: Wikipedia Eventstream TIMESTAMPS The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20200522142047/https://curate.nd.edu/show/ft848p61g5s University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries Search CurateND Search CurateND Search About About Terms of Service Governing Policies FAQ Log In FAQ Column of Marcus Aurelius: Overall view, of base and column Image Click to Expand Description Roman victory column, with a spiral relief, built in honour of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and modeled on Trajan’s Column. Because the original dedicatory inscription has been destroyed, it is not known whether it was built during the emperor’s reign (on the occasion of the triumph over the Germanic tribes and Sarmatians in the year 176) or after his death in 180; however, an inscription found in the vicinity attests that the column was completed by 193. As with Trajan’s column, there is an interior stairway. About 3 metres of the base have been below ground level since 1589 when, by order of pope Sixtus V, the whole column was restored by Domenico Fontana and adapted to the ground level of that time. Also a bronze statue of the apostle St. Paul was placed on the top platform, to go with that of St. Peter on Trajan’s Column (27 October 1588). (Originally the top platform probably had a statue of Marcus Aurelius, but it had been already lost by the 16th century.) Attributes Attribute Name Values Alternate Title Columna Centenaria Divorum Marci et Faustinae Creator G. Massiot & cie Subject Columns Architecture Date Created 1910-01-01 Date Digitized 2007-01-01 Cultural Context Roman (ancient Italian style) Imperial (Roman) Place of Creation Rome, Lazio, Italy: Piazza Colonna in front of Palazzo Chigi Rome +41.900833+12.479861 Departments and Units University of Notre DameHesburgh LibrariesGeneral Member of Architectural Lantern Slides of Italy Temporal Coverage before or circa 1910 Record Visibility Public Content License Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 Collections Collections Featuring this Image Architectural Lantern Slides of Italy Files Thumbnail File Name Description Size Type File Access Actions Please Note: You may encounter a delay before a download begins. Large or infrequently accessed files can take several minutes to retrieve from our archival storage system. Italy-Rome-column-Marcus-Aurelius.jpg 617 KB image/jpeg Public Begin Download View Details image_1155.xml 5.05 KB text/xml Public Begin Download View Details Italy-Rome-column-Marcus-Aurelius.tif 331 MB image/tiff Public Begin Download View Details 1 - 3 of 3 CurateND is a service of the Hesburgh Libraries of Notre Dame. Questions? Contact the CurateND Support team at curate@nd.edu. Help Copyright © 2020 University of Notre Dame University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries