Bức tượng Constantine Đại đế được tái tạo nhờ vào kỹ thuật số

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But the colossal statue (bức tượng khổng lồ) of a fourth-century emperor, Constantine the Great, is a newly erected monument (tượng đài được dựng lên) to Rome if nothing else: a homage to the ancient city’s grandeur, and of its endless capacity to remake itself.

In this case, the remaking was literal.

Towering over visitors, the 43-foot seated statue was painstakingly reconstructed (được xây dựng lại một cách tỉ mỉ) by a Madrid-based digital art group, Factum Foundation, from the 10 known fragments of the original sculpture. The reconstructed statue was installed in a garden in Rome’s Capitoline Museums this week, close to where the Temple of Jupiter, the most important temple of ancient Rome, once stood.

The head and most of the other fragments of the colossal statue were discovered in 1486, in the ruins of a building not far from the Colosseum. They were transferred to what eventually became the Capitoline collection, and nine of those ancient fragments (mảnh ghép cổ xưa) — including a monumental head, feet and hand — are permanently on show at the museums.

Those were then integrated (tích hợp) with other body parts — the ones Constantine was missing — that were constructed after historical research (nghiên cứu lịch sử) and discussions with curators and experts. A statue of the emperor Claudius as the god Jupiter, now at the ancient Roman altar known as the Ara Pacis, was used as a model for the pose and draping, which was originally in bronze.

The statue will be on show in the Capitoline garden until at least the end of 2025, officials said. Where it will go afterward, and whether it will withstand the ravages of time (sự tàn phá của thời gian) better than its fractured original, remain open questions.

source: nytimes,