Talk:Colossus of Constantine

2 right hands?

What is the evidence that there are two right hands? If no reliable reference can be found, I intend to remove this... Valerius Tygart (talk) 12:44, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

I have personally seen them in the museum, plus they are referenced in the biography by Pohlsander. See: http://books.google.com/books?id=XgXjH9SQC8QC&pg=PA79&dq=Constantine+statue+Pohlsander&hl=en&ei=QbrgTdyuK4OMswa1uMz_BQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

By all means remove unreferenced assertions but not ones with in line citations - after all the article is a bit sparse on citations.Urselius (talk) 08:27, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Fair enough! Valerius Tygart (talk) 13:31, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

This modular statue was uncovered disassembled, in fragments

No real contradiction here! Please leave this interesting information in the article. The statue was disassembled in ancient times, and later discovered in fragments. We probably will never know exactly what happened. The second right hand might have been a discarded early draft, a spare part, a later revision of this acrolith, or possibly a piece of some other statuary. These ancient statues were somewhat like lego figurines, easily revised with different, interchangeable parts. Fascinating! 71.207.203.133 (talk) 14:19, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Bronze colossus of Constantine

The bronze version ought to be covered on this page, or have a page of its own. "Among the fragments of the statue on display at the Capitoline Museums are a massive head, a left forearm and sphere." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/29/giant-statue-roman-emperor-constantine-reunited-with-long-lost-finger Housecarl (talk) 19:58, 1 May 2021 (UTC)

But it isn't 'a bronze version', it is an entirely different sculpture, albeit of the same subject. Urselius (talk) 15:59, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

One might give it a couple of lines here though. Johnbod (talk) 03:45, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Dominate

Maybe this article should link to Dominate, since it shows some of the artistic trends of that period (see the book Art Forms and Civic Life in the Late Roman Empire by H.P. L'Orange, ISBN 0-691-00305-X). AnonMoos (talk) 13:31, 3 October 2022 (UTC)