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Trajan's coilumn detail
Following information from:- www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/trajans-column/
The cast of Trajan's Column taken from the original 1st century AD monument, represents sculpture from the earliest period in the Cast Courts. The cast of the column was obtained for the Museum in 1864 at a cost of £2,498 11s 2d (which translates approximately to £107,164 in today's money). Pieces of relief were cast in sections from metal moulds held in the Louvre which had been cast under the direction of Napoleon III. The commissioning of casts of the base appears to have been an after-thought in 1872.
The gallery is not high enough to accommodate the column in one piece even without the surmounting figure of St Peter. In the original catalogue of 1874 the display of the column in two sections was seen as a distinct bonus, providing as it does the opportunity to see much of the detail of the reliefs not clearly visible on the original.
Trajan's coilumn detail
Following information from:- www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/trajans-column/
The cast of Trajan's Column taken from the original 1st century AD monument, represents sculpture from the earliest period in the Cast Courts. The cast of the column was obtained for the Museum in 1864 at a cost of £2,498 11s 2d (which translates approximately to £107,164 in today's money). Pieces of relief were cast in sections from metal moulds held in the Louvre which had been cast under the direction of Napoleon III. The commissioning of casts of the base appears to have been an after-thought in 1872.
The gallery is not high enough to accommodate the column in one piece even without the surmounting figure of St Peter. In the original catalogue of 1874 the display of the column in two sections was seen as a distinct bonus, providing as it does the opportunity to see much of the detail of the reliefs not clearly visible on the original.