MID-19TH CENTURY

细节

An Italian Marmo Nero Belgio Model of Trajan's Column
Mid-19th Century
The column engraved with a spiralling frieze of Trajan's campaigns, surmounted by a bronze figure of the Emperor in battle dress holding a spear and shield, the base inscribed in yellow intarsia N. AVERELIVS IMP. ARMEN PERT CERM BELLO MAXIMO DEVICTIS TRIVMPHALEM HANE COLUMNAM REBVS CESTIS INSIENEM IMP ANTON PIO PARTI DEDICAVIT on a marmo giallo base
21 in. (53.3 cm.) high

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拍品专文

A Spaniard by birth and a soldier by profession Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Trajanus) was adopted as successor to the Emperor Nerva and ruled between 98 - 117 A.D. Trajan's empire building skills were universally acclaimed and he soon achieved the title Optimus Princeps, which appears on his coins and monuments. The commemorative column records the military achievements of his Dacian campaigns in the spiral relief frieze. Towards the end of the 18th century reduced copies of Trajan's Column became increasingly sought after. The most famous copy is the two metre high example executed by Luigi Valadier in marble, granite, lapis lazuli, gilt-bronze and silver-gilt, completed in 1780 and preserved in the Schatzkammer of the Residenz in Munich (F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, Yale, 1981, p. 21, fig. 26.).
Later the column would inspire Napoleon to commemorate the victories of La Grande Armée with a full scale copy in the Place Vendôme, Paris.