![]() ![]() Christianity played an important role not only in Constantine’s personal life and success, but also in the program of reform and renewal that he had planned for the Roman Empire. He thereafter aimed to establish a new dynasty and to found a new capital, named Constantinople after himself. ![]() By 325 he had succeeded in reunifying the empire, having defeated the last of his former tetrarchic colleagues, the eastern emperor Licinius. ![]() The team was led by Francesco Cigognetti, Factum's Technical Director.Constantine the Great was the first Christian emperor of Rome, and his reign had a profound effect on the subsequent development of the Roman, later Byzantine, world. Juan Carlos Arias, Angel Jorquera, Miguel Hernando, José Menéndez, Mari Pascual, Aniuska Martin, Charlie Westgarth, Pedro Salafranca, Florencio Martínez and Silvia Álvarez were joined by Javier Botella, Mar García, Monserrat Fornés, Guillermo Mugica and Raul Candil. The scale of the project involved more than half of the Factum team working on different sections of the sculpture in different areas of the workshop. ![]() The recreated sections of the body were made in polyurethane, coated in several layers of resin mixed with marble powder and mica, to achieve a clean neutral marble-white colour. The cloak was made in milled polystyrene, coated with acrylic resin mixed with bronze powder, over which a distressed gold foil gilding was applied. The result was perfect facsimiles of the original fragments. The surface was coated with a custom gesso mix and painted to resemble the original marble, weathered by the exposure to the elements. The recorded digital data of each fragment was rematerialised as 1:1 3D prints, which were used to make positive casts in reinforced resin. It was decided to visually distinguish the facsimile fragments from the digitally reconstructed body and cloak. In May 2022, the work of digital mediation into physical form began in Factum's workshop. The fragments in a digital environment and the recreated body and cloak © Irene Gaumé for Factum Foundation The high-resolution data and 3D models of each fragment were given to the museums responsible for the objects as part of the condition monitoring of the sculptures. Chest fragment (Parco Archeologico del Colosseo).In the reconstruction, the ten fragments which were recorded and used were: A gypsum copy of a statue of Emperor Claudius as Jupiter, inside the Ara Pacis Museum, was also recorded to be used as a reference for the general posing of the sculpture. However, all data was implemented with great accuracy during the 3D modelling phase.Īnother recording carried out by Osama Dawod acquired the data of an additional fragment from the Parco Archeologico del Colosseo. Some of the fragments were placed up against the walls of the courtyard, making their recording challenging. Michelangelo placed and arranged the remaining marble fragments of the Colossus on display inside the courtyard of the Palazzo dei Conservatori (today part of the Musei Capitolini in Rome), including an additional right hand.Īt the end of March 2022, Pedro Miró, Otto Lowe and Imran Khan travelled to the Musei Capitolini to record the ten fragments in high-resolution using photogrammetry and LiDAR. The Colossus of Constantine was an early 4th-century monumental statue depicting emperor Constantine the Great. It is believed a pagan statue was repurposed to celebrate Constantine's reign and the recognition of Christianity as a legal religion within the empire. The statue was later broken and pillaged for bronze, before its re-discovery in the 15 th century following an excavation at the Basilica of Maxentius. Factum Foundation has worked with the Musei Capitolini and Fondazione Prada on an ambitious project to recreate the large-scale sculpture of the Colossus of Constantine (313-324) for the exhibition 'Recycling Beauty' (NovemFebruary 27, 2023), curated by Salvatore Settis. The 13m-tall (42 feet) work, displayed inside the Cisterna at the Fondazione Prada, is the result of months of close collaboration between the 3D team at Factum Foundation and a team of experts under the supervision of Claudio Parisi Presicce, the Capitoline Superintendent of Cultural Heritage. ![]()
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