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5th Century AD : Barletta Italy \"Colossus\" Statue - Restitvtvs - 05-06-2011
Found some large, good resolution photos of the large 5th (or 4th or 6th) century bronze "Colossus" statue of a Roman emperor in Barletta, Italy.:-D :-D :-D
Click here for the Wikipedia acticle.
Enjoy! :grin:
[img width=800]https://artserve.anu.edu.au/raider5/italy2004/barletta/monuments/colossus/dsc03791.JPG[/img]
Re: 5th Century AD : Barletta Italy \"Colossus\" Statue - M. Demetrius - 05-06-2011
When I click the link, I get an "Untrusted site" notice.
Re: 5th Century AD : Barletta Italy \"Colossus\" Statue - Restitvtvs - 05-06-2011
Maybe security software is more selective.
This Australian National University webpage has been on the internet since about 2004.
Re: 5th Century AD : Barletta Italy \"Colossus\" Statue - M. Demetrius - 05-06-2011
I think that's a rather stern looking man. Looks like he could get angry and do decisive things.
Amazing how the clothing works in that era. Because of the tight sleeves, am I right in thinking more like 5-6th C rather than 4th?
Re: 5th Century AD : Barletta Italy \"Colossus\" Statue - Forty-One - 05-06-2011
Penguin use a photo of that as the cover for their translation of Ammianus Marcellinus. Of course there they say it's a statue of Valentinian I to fit in with the period covered in the book.
Re: 5th Century AD : Barletta Italy \"Colossus\" Statue - john roberts - 05-06-2011
Guy's got a jaw like Clancy Brown. Acromegaly, maybe?
Re: 5th Century AD : Barletta Italy \"Colossus\" Statue - Restitvtvs - 05-07-2011
Quote:I think that's a rather stern looking man. Looks like he could get angry and do decisive things.
Amazing how the clothing works in that era. Because of the tight sleeves, am I right in thinking more like 5-6th C rather than 4th?
Seems so.
Compared to 4th through 6th century coins, frescos, mosaics, and other sculptures' of Eastern and Western Roman emperors, I think the Barletta "Colossus" statue more closely fits :lol: in several ways with the 5th to 6th century emperors.
Re: 5th Century AD : Barletta Italy \"Colossus\" Statue - Simplex - 05-08-2011
....a good way to make me "headscratch".
They call it "Ercole" (=Hercules) down there, most probably for reason of it's sheer size.
This here gives an impressions of its size:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Barletta_Colosso.jpg
My first idea about it was; "Hey it's from Renaissance, isn't it ?!".
Comparing the side's view of his head I'd advocate Valentinian I indeed, but then this guy was depicted on coins having a labarum (field sign) in his right rather than a (small) cross. (The orbis in his left would be correct). So there would he be an east-roman Emperor like Justinian ?! IIRC this part of Italy was recovered by Justinian
after 525AD . (Better side-view picture of this guy, anyone ?! The coins I saw tonight had such a lousy quality of imprint it was a shame, the wester roman (earlier)coins were mostly better by far, e.g. here:
http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/valentinian_I/t.html)
But this still leaves us multiple choices:
1. It's Valentinian I "corpore vivo".
2. It's Valentinian I. And what he had in his right hand (a labarum !) was substituted in later times ?! The placement of his arm and hand would fit in here.8)
3. It's Valentinian depicted "ex post" eventually much later than in his lifetime.:?:
4. It's Justinian
5. It's another Emperor :-?
What do you think ?
Greez & Goodnight
Simplex
Re: 5th Century AD : Barletta Italy \"Colossus\" Statue - Simplex - 05-26-2011
.....Walter Pohl presumes it's probably either Marcianus (450-457) or Leo I.(457-474) -- East Roman Emperors.
(From: Catalogue from Exhibition "Attila Und Die Hunnen" page 190)
Interesting feat: Marcian was also "nominal" Emperor of the western part from 456-457; also Leo I.from 462-463 and 472-473. (>"nominal" ). This could be an explanation why this statue is in Barletta -- in the western part of the R.E. .
BTW: I've been referring to that exhibition elsewhere:
http://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat.html?func=view&catid=18&id=149633
I knew I'd seen that statue before. :mrgreen:
Greez
Simplex