Research Catalog

Title

The Arch of Constantine : inspired by the divine / Iain Ferris.

Author

Ferris, I. M. (Iain M.)

Publication

Stroud : Amberley, 2013.

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Description

160 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

Right next to the Colosseum in Rome stands the Arch of Constantine. Completed AD 312-315, it was built to celebrate ten years of the Emperor Constantine's reign and his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. The arch is undoubtedly the most impressive civic monument surviving from this period. At 69 feet high, this triumphal arch is impossible to miss and is a key attraction for tourists visiting Rome. And yet this is the first modern book in English on the monument. Iain Ferris analyses the arch and the reign of Constantine himself, as well as discussing the reuse of older buildings in its construction, its complex and impressive decoration, and the use of arches as civic commemorative monuments in the Roman world. All of this is set against the broader geographical, chronological, and cultural context.

Subjects

• Monuments
• Sculpture, Roman
• Arches
• Rome (Italy) > Buildings, structures, etc
• Monuments > Italy > Rome
• Sculpture, Roman > Italy > Rome
• Italy > Rome
• Arches > Italy > Rome
• Arch of Constantine (Rome, Italy)
• Buildings
• Rome (Empire)
• Triumphal arches > Rome

Contents

Life and times -- Monument and materiality -- The good emperors -- Inspired by the divine -- The ghost in the machine -- Collage and memory -- A metaphor for modernity -- Appendix. Visiting Constantine's Rome.

ISBN

• 9781445601298 (pbk.)
• 144560129X (pbk.)

OCLC

• 861318848
• SCSB-5841155

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries