DETAIL FROM THE SPIRAL PICTURE RELIEF ON THE COLUMN OF MARCUS AURELIUS , PIAZZA COLONNA IN ROME ITALY
The Column of Marcus Aurelius is a Doric column, with a spiral relief, built in193 AD honour of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and modeled on Trajan's Column. It stands on its original site, in Piazza Colonna , Rome before the Palazzo Chigi The spiral picture relief tells the story of Marcus Aurelius’ Danubian or Marcomannic wars, waged by him from 166 to his death. The column consists of 28 blocks of Carrara marble, each diameter, hollowed out whilst still at the quarry for a stairway of 200 steps within the column up to a platform at the top. Just as with Trajan’s Column, this stairway is illuminated through narrow slits into the relief. the height of the column in total is m.
Size: 5160px × 3406px
Location: PIAZZA COLONNA, ROME, ITALY
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