The Colossus of Constantine발음듣기
The Colossus of Constantine
SPEAKER 1: We're looking at the remains of a colossal marble representation of the emperor Constantine.발음듣기
SPEAKER 2: And this colossal sculpture was originally, we think, about 40 feet high. So really big.발음듣기
SPEAKER 1: And it would have filled this extraordinary space at the end of the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine.발음듣기
SPEAKER 1: Michelangelo is the one who actually brought it up to the Capitoline Hill, which was the ancient government center.발음듣기
And the person who really ushers in Christianity and all the changes that will take place in Italy and end the former empire.발음듣기
SPEAKER 2: Well, and he moves the capital of the empire to Constantinople, the city of Constantine all the way in the east and so, in a way, begins the decline of the city of Rome that we see happen in the Middle Ages.발음듣기
We think his body had a core of wood and mud brick, and maybe was covered in gilded bronze. We're not really sure.발음듣기
SPEAKER 1: Well, you know this is a really interesting stylistic moment when we think about ancient Greece and ancient Rome.발음듣기
But we're talking about a long period of time in the classical era, and styles change there also.발음듣기
SPEAKER 2: If you think about the history of Roman emperors and their images, you often see a combination of realism and idealism.발음듣기
SPEAKER 2: Exactly, but at the same time they were idealized to greater or lesser extents and thereby recalled ancient Greek sculpture.발음듣기
It's not the issue between a kind of really high pitch nationalism that can actually capture the characteristics of an individual's face, and a kind of idealism.발음듣기
SPEAKER 2: There's something abstracted, I think, about the oval shapes of his eyes, where we have a sense of them being reduced to geometric shapes.발음듣기
And maybe this is a sign of moving towards that symbolic way of representing that we see with the beginnings of Christianity.발음듣기
SPEAKER 1: I think It's impossible to untangle it from the rise of Christianity, because of our subsequent knowledge of what will happen.발음듣기
But my understanding is that there was also different kinds of representation for different strata of society.발음듣기
And that one could recall, that you sort of in the imperial past, one could recall the more intellectual pursuits of the Greeks through a kind of naturalism.발음듣기
But one might speak to the here and the now and the broader population through a greater degree of abstraction.발음듣기
SPEAKER 2: If your figures that look to us as disproportionate, maybe stocky, and stiff in their movements without the lovely contrapposto that we see in ancient Greek and Roman art.발음듣기
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