A Wikipedia article on the Colossus of Constantine, an acrolithic statue of Constantine the Great carved circa 312-315 AD, describing its construction (a carved marble head, arms and legs on a brick core and wooden frame), its original scale of roughly 12-13 metres seated in the apse of the Basilica of Maxentius, and its surviving fragments held today by the Capitoline Museums in Rome.
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_of_Constantine
Source Typeencyclopedia
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used for uncontroversial art-historical facts about the statue's construction and original setting, corroborated by a second, independently written Wikipedia article on the holding museum. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Constantine the Great directly: "Constantine, an acrolithic statue of Constantine the Great carved circa 312-315 AD, describing its construction (a carved marble head, arms and legs on a brick core and wooden frame), its original..."
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- Sacred Art & Iconography, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
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