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Statue of Constantine the Great next to York Minster..
(Portrait by Wonky Donkey the Great)
Baltimore Greek Folk Festival got a big treat this year when Tony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis showed up for a free concert. We got off to a rocky start, but gradually eased into a happy place.
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obverse medium bronze follis struck in London for Constantine I, 306- 37 A.D. RIC vi 121a is part of an issue, 120- 127, dated to c. mid-310. RIC vii 88- 100 does not include this obverse legend. If their are actually two issues involved, it would be likely that this larger head type would be in the earlier, while a smaller headed coin, such as the previous one, would be part of the latter issue. {06}
Former American Idol contestant and was featured on Broadway in the musical Rock of Ages, Constantine Maroulis takes part in the 2012 Greek Independence Day Parade in NYC.
Constantine the Great (274-337), Minster Yard, York, 1998.
By Philip Jackson (b1944).
Near this place, Constantine was proclaimed Roman Emperor in 306. His recognition of the civil liberties of his Christian subjects, and his own conversion to the Faith, established the religious foundations of Western Christendom.
"The full breadth of Constantine's portraiture demonstrates a remarkable evolution: early coin portraits show him in the manner of the Tetrarchs with a stubble beard and blocky physique, while later portraits such as this one, made after his assumption of sole power, show a significant change. In an effort to disassociate himself from his immediate predecessors, Constantine adopted an official image that recalled the calm, youthful faces of Augustus and Trajan. This colossal portrait head once surmounted an enormous statue of the seated emperor, and displays many features characteristic of Augustan and Trajanic portraiture. Most notably, Constantine is clean-shaven and his cap of hair is thick and arranged in comma-shaped locks across his forehead (compare this with the portrait head of Augustus (07.286.115http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/07.286.115 andhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/22955235@N00/8072044267/in/photostream). As part of his plan to reorganize the empire, Constantine's portraiture offered a new iconography to match his new regime.
This monumental head, as in smaller portraits and coins of Constantine, presents the emperor as detached from the real world. It lacks the intimacy and individual expressiveness of earlier imperial portraits. Constantine gazes into the far distance with his eyes lifted as if to heaven. The symbolism is clear and sets the stage for the iconography of the early Christian and Byzantine world, where the emperor was seen as God's regent on earth".
Il y a deux mois environ, j'ai reçu cette magnifique doll! Un coup de coeur dont j'avais raté la pre-vente mais que j'ai retrouvé sur le marché secondaire.
Elle est partie se faire une beauté il y a quelques semaines, et ne devrait plus tarder à rentrer. J'ai hâte de vous la présenter, elle et son histoire.
Elle se nomme Constantine, en lien avec le moule mais aussi avec le film...