Column of Marcus Aurelius

monument, Rome, Italy

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Rome

  • Rome
    In Rome: Churches and palaces

    The column of Marcus Aurelius, with reliefs showing his victory over Danubian tribes, was preserved from the assorted Christian looters of Rome because it was the property of a religious order. In the square around the column, the Piazza Colonna, are the Palazzo Chigi (1562), for…

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sculpture

  • Edmonia Lewis: Hagar
    In Western sculpture: Antonine and Severan periods

    …about 20 years later on Marcus Aurelius’s Column. Eleven rectangular sculptured panels—similar to those on the Arch of Trajan at Beneventum but displaying greater crowding of figures, livelier movement, and a pronounced effect of atmosphere and depth—depict official occasions and ceremonies in the career of Marcus. Three of these are…

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