{"id":44504,"date":"2024-02-15T13:31:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T12:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/?post_type=restauri&#038;p=44504"},"modified":"2024-02-16T14:22:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:22:07","slug":"the-maintenance-of-the-arch-of-constantine","status":"publish","type":"restauri","link":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/restauri\/the-maintenance-of-the-arch-of-constantine\/","title":{"rendered":"The maintenance of the Arch of Constantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>Arch of Constantine<\/strong>, located along the Triumphal Way between the Circus Maximus and the Arch of Titus, is the <strong>largest honorary arch<\/strong> that has come down to us and represents a <strong>synthesis of the ideological propaganda of the Constantine era<\/strong>. The arch celebrates the triumph of Emperor Constantine over Maxentius, which occurred on 28 October 312 AD following the battle of the Milvian Bridge. The<strong> inscription on the central archway<\/strong> recounts that the monument was dedicated by the Senate to the emperor in memory of that triumph and on the occasion of the decennalia of the empire at the beginning of the tenth year of his reign, 25 July 315 AD.<br \/>\nThe <strong>decoration in marble slabs in relief<\/strong> was conceived and realised according to a unified design, using mostly <strong>spoiled materials<\/strong> from other imperial monuments. On the main faces of the arch and on the sides, <strong>reliefs from the age of Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius<\/strong> and finally, in the lower section, from the <strong>age of Constantine<\/strong> alternated in symmetrical patterns. <strong>Coloured marbles<\/strong> adorned the surfaces: <strong>columns in antique yellow, mirrors in red porphyry housed Hadrian&#8217;s roundels, cipolin marble bases supported the statues of the Dacians in pavonazzetto marble<\/strong>, while a band of coloured marble, possibly <strong>serpentine<\/strong>, ran horizontally across the cornice.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arch of Constantine, located along the Triumphal Way between the Circus Maximus and the Arch of Titus, is the largest honorary arch that has come down to us and represents a synthesis of the ideological propaganda of the Constantine era. The arch celebrates the triumph of Emperor Constantine over Maxentius, which occurred on 28<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/restauri\/the-maintenance-of-the-arch-of-constantine\/\" title=\"ReadThe maintenance of the Arch of Constantine\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":44641,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/restauri\/44504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/restauri"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/restauri"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/restauri\/44504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44664,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/restauri\/44504\/revisions\/44664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colosseo.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}