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Original Roman bronze, c. 173-176 C.E. The initial location of the sculpture is unknown though it had been housed in the Lateran Palace since the 8th century until it was placed in the center of the Piazza del Campidoglio by Michelangelo in 1538. The original is now indoors for purposes of conservation. Marcus Aurelius ruled 161-180 C.E.
This is the National Archeological Museum of Naples.
It was our first stop of the day in Naples.
The Naples National Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli) is a museum in Naples, southern Italy, at the northwest corner of the original Greek wall of the city of Neapolis. The museum contains a large collection of Roman artifacts from Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum. The collection includes works of the highest quality produced in Greek, Roman and Renaissance times. It is the most important Italian archaeological museum.
Charles III of Spain founded the museum in the 1750s. The building he used for it had been erected as a cavalry barracks and during its time as the seat of the University of Naples (from 1616 to 1777) was extended, in the late 18th century.
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
From the main corridor we turned right into a section with loads of Roman statues in a least three galleries on the ground floor.
Marcus Aurelius as a youth
147-151 AD
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The castel began as the mausoleum of emperor Hadrian. He began work here already in 125 A.D., and it was finished by his successor in 139, a year after the death of Hadrian. It was not just for Hadrian himself, but also his family, the buried here included his wife Sabina, Antoninus Pius and his wife Faustina Maior, Lucius Aelius Caesar, Commodus, Marcus Aurelius, Septimius Severus and his wife Julia Domna, Geta and Caracalla. Caracalla's burial in 217 A.D. is the last recorded one in the mausoleum.
In 401 it was turned into a fortress and got built into the Aurelian wall. When Alaric and the Visigoths sacked Rome in 410 A.D. the place was looted and the urns taken away and the ashes scattered. And in 590 an angel is supposed to have appeared on the roof - where the bronze statue now can be found - given the place its current name.
The popes rebuilt the mausoleum/fortress several times, continuing to use it as a fortress, connected to St Peter through a covered fortified corridor and a lot of structural revisions were made in the 16th century making it a Roman/Renaissance crossover.
Marble portrait of Marcus Aurelius
Roman, Antonine period, A.D. 161-180
The bust exemplifies Marcus Aurelius' image as the perfect ruler, the "philosopher king." His face projects maturity, serenity, and wisdom, underlined by his long beard in the tradition of Greek philosophers. But he also wears a military tunic and cloak, which reflect his active role as commander-in-chief. He spent many years during the latter part of his reign on campaign in central Europe defending the Danube frontier against several different barbarian tribes. IT was during these campaigns that he wrote parts of the so called Meditations, a personal diary of his innermost thoughts, influenced by the teachings of his inntermost thoughts, influenced by the teachings of the Greek philosopher Epictetus. The bust is said to have been acquired in Rome by the Hon. James Barry Smith and was displayed at Marbury Hall in Cheshire, England, in 1776.
Anonymous Loan (L.2007.29)
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The April 20, 2007 unveiling of the 30,000 square foot Greek and Roman Galleries concluded a 15-year project and returned thousands of works from the Museum’s permanent collection to public view. Over 5,300 objects, created between about 900 B.C. and the early fourth century A.D., are displayed, tracing the parallel stories of the evolution of Greek art in the Hellenistic period and the arts of southern Italy and Etruria and culminating in the rich and varied world of the Roman Empire from from the Late Republican period and the Golden Age of Augustus’s Principate to the conversion of Constantine the Great in A.D. 312. The centerpiece of the new installation is the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court, a monumental, peristyle cour court with a soaring two-story atrium that links the various galleries and themes.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's permanent collection contains more than two million works of art from around the world. It opened its doors on February 20, 1872, housed in a building located at 681 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Under their guidance of John Taylor Johnston and George Palmer Putnam, the Met's holdings, initially consisting of a Roman stone sarcophagus and 174 mostly European paintings, quickly outgrew the available space. In 1873, occasioned by the Met's purchase of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriot antiquities, the museum decamped from Fifth Avenue and took up residence at the Douglas Mansion on West 14th Street. However, these new accommodations were temporary; after negotiations with the city of New York, the Met acquired land on the east side of Central Park, where it built its permanent home, a red-brick Gothic Revival stone "mausoleum" designed by American architects Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mold. As of 2006, the Met measures almost a quarter mile long and occupies more than two million square feet, more than 20 times the size of the original 1880 building.
In 2007, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was ranked #17 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967. The interior was designated in 1977.
National Historic Register #86003556
I don't think it exists.
But if it did... I'd climb up high enough to see it all. The grand perspective. Providence. Sovereignty.
Light the incense and just sit in the clean cool breeze and savor life from above.
But it's never quite high enough, eh?
In the meantime, we catch hints and glimpses.
Have you seen the savage movie 300 or Gladiator? Even the mighty general Marcus Aurelius poetically yearned for peace.
This white marble portrait head of a woman has detachable black marble hair. These types of portraits were written about in antiquity - it made changing out hairstyles to reflect the current styles easier than re-carving an entire bust or statue.
The head is possibly Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla (148 or 150 – 182 CE), daughter of Marcus Aurelius, sister of Commodus, and wife of the co-emperor Lucius Verus (who was also the adoptive brother of her father, with whom he shared rule over the Roman empire). When she was involved in a bungled plot to assassinate her unstable brother, who had ascended to the throne after their father's death, she and her daughter were exiled to the island of Capri. Within the year, Commodus sent a centurion to the island to execute them both. In 1964, Sophia Loren portrayed Lucilla in the movie 'The Fall of the Roman Empire'; in the 2000 movie 'Gladiator', Lucilla is portrayed by Connie Nielson.
The bust (torso) is modern, probably 18th century. It's composed of two differently colored types of striated alabaster, where dozens of pieces have been attached and carved into the folds of her palla (cloak) and tunic). The alabaster might be spolia from an ancient tomb or civic building (not sure a good trade in exotic alabaster had resumed by the 18th c.).
This portrait bust was gifted by Pope Benedict XIV to the newly public Musei Capitolini (Capitoline Museums) in 1750, as you can see written on its socle (base).
Roman
ca. 150-160 CE (the Capitoline also uses a 160-180 CE date)
No findspot known, but certainly around Rome
Musei capitolini, Palazzo Nuovo, Sala degli imperatori (inv. MC469)
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, c. 173–76 C.E. gilded bronze (Capitoline Museums, Rome). The original location of the sculpture is unknown. Beginning in the 8th century, it was located near the Lateran Palace, until it was placed in the center of the Piazza del Campidoglio in 1538 by Michelangelo. The original statue is now indoors for purposes of conservation.
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
(Marcus Aurelius)
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This building began as the mausoleum of emperor Hadrian. He began work here already in 125 A.D., and it was finished by his successor in 139, a year after the death of Hadrian. It was not just for Hadrian himself, but also his family, the buried here included his wife Sabina, Antoninus Pius and his wife Faustina Maior, Lucius Aelius Caesar, Commodus, Marcus Aurelius, Septimius Severus and his wife Julia Domna, Geta and Caracalla. Caracalla's burial in 217 A.D. is the last recorded one in the mausoleum.
In 401 it was turned into a fortress and got built into the Aurelian wall. When Alaric and the Visigoths sacked Rome in 410 A.D. the place was looted and the urns taken away and the ashes scattered. And in 590 an angel is supposed to have appeared on the roof - where the bronze statue now can be found - given the place its current name.
The popes rebuilt the mausoleum/fortress several times, continuing to use it as a fortress, connected to St Peter through a covered fortified corridor and a lot of structural revisions were made in the 16th century making it a Roman/Renaissance crossover.
Two scenes from the Column of Marcus Aurelius in Rome: above, the formation of a "testudo," similar to that represented on the Column of Trajan. In this depiction, the massed shields deflect weapons and fire thrown down from the defenders above. Below: The emperor, standing on a platform, is presented with defeated barbarians.
The Column was erected shortly after 180 CE.
RBU2015.5485
Bookshelf: Living Without God - The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius (Selections Annotated and Explained by Russell McNeil) - Blackberry Passport - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia where he works also as a writer and a personal trainer.
Original Roman bronze, c. 173-176 C.E. The initial location of the sculpture is unknown though it had been housed in the Lateran Palace since the 8th century until it was placed in the center of the Piazza del Campidoglio by Michelangelo in 1538. The original is now indoors for purposes of conservation. Marcus Aurelius ruled 161-180 C.E.
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius (2nd century AD)
Large bronze sculptures from antiquity are exceptionally rare but the Capitoline Museums have some of the finest on display in Rome.
The Capitoline Museums complex (Musei Capitolini) in Rome has one of the finest collections of sculptures, statues, and archaeological finds from antiquity in the world, in addition to paintings and art from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. Top highlights are very rare large Roman bronze sculptures such as the original equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, Boy with a Thorn, and the Capitoline She-Wolf (and the much more recent Romulus and Remus). The paintings collection includes works by Caravaggio, Titian, Rubens, Van Dyck, and many other European masters. Although the museum is rarely overcrowded, buying tickets online saves time.
Ancient Rome Historic Center, Rome, Italy. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.
Arch of Constantine, 312-315 C.E. and older spolia, marble and porphyry, Rome Learn more on Smarthistory
Marble head c.160 from Alexandria, Egypt. Formerly Barberini Collection, Rome. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. UK
2nd c. CE, (138-169)
From Fiumicino/Portus, Fossa Traiana
Quarry sealings have been found in cavities on blocks of marble
These bear busts of Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
Ostia, Parco Archeologico di Ostia antica, inv. 37643, 37645, 37646
On display at the exhibit "L'Arte di Costruire un Capolavoro: la Colonna Traiana" (The Art of Building a Masterpiece: Trajan's Column), Limonaia del Giardino di Boboli, Florence, June 21 - October 6, 2019
That isn't my flash in the background,was a light. This shot was hand held.
Marcus Aurelius (April 26, 121 - March 17, 180) was the last of the five "good" emperors of Rome and a major Stoic philosopher.
Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (born Marcus Annius Verus) reigned from from A.D. 161-180. As Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius followed Emperor Antoninus Pius (the husband of a paternal aunt of Marcus Aurelius) who had adopted Aurelius as heir. In 145, Marcus Aurelius married his cousin Faustina, the daughter of Antoninus Pius. Marcus Aurelius originally co-ruled with Lucius Aurelius Verus who commanded the eastern campaigns and died suddenly in 169.
All the books I finished in 2012.
Pictured:
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway (re-read)
The Learners - Chip Kidd
Money - Martin Amis
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov - Anton Chekhov (tr. P&V)
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller (re-read)
Travesties - Tom Stoppard
Metropole - Ferenc Karinthy
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon
Coriolanus - William Shakespeare
"Family Happiness" / "Happily Ever After" - Leo Tolstoy
The Living End - Stanley Elkin
Uncle Vanya - Anton Chekhov
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald
Selected Stories - Flannery O'Connor
Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor (re-read)
Rabbit, Run - John Updike
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
O, How the Wheel Becomes It! - Anthony Powell
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Stranger - Albert Camus (re-read)
The Early History of Rome (Books I-V) - Titus Livy
Cultural Amnesia - Clive James
Rome and Italy (Books VI-X) - Titus Livy
An Open Book - Michael Dirda
Metamorphoses - Ovid (tr. Mandelbaum)
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
King Lear - William Shakespeare (re-read)
Chess Story - Stefan Zweig
Bartleby & Co. - Enrique Vila-Matas
Seven Pleasures - Willard Spiegelman
The Emigrants - W.G. Sebald
Fifth Business - Robertson Davies (re-read)
The Manticore - Robertson Davies
World of Wonders - Robertson Davies
World War Z - Max Brooks
Journey Into the Past - Stefan Zweig
How the End Begins - Ron Rosenbaum
Selected Stories - Stefan Zweig
The Silence of Trees - Valya Dudycz Lupescu
Night Train - Martis Amis
1984 - George Orwell (re-read)
Not pictured:
Darkness Visible - William Styron
Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
Take Time for Paradise - A. Bartlett Giamatti
I Totally Meant To Do That - Jane Borden
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
Sea, Swallow Me - Craig Gidney
Capital - John Lanchester
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym - Edgar Allan Poe
For a writeup about the whole shebang, check out Another Year, In the Books, at Virtual Memories! And go listen to The Virtual Memories Show!
Original Roman bronze, c. 173-176 C.E. The initial location of the sculpture is unknown though it had been housed in the Lateran Palace since the 8th century until it was placed in the center of the Piazza del Campidoglio by Michelangelo in 1538. The original is now indoors for purposes of conservation. Marcus Aurelius ruled 161-180 C.E.
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Back in 1997 I was introduced to Italian music by my school’s Italian teacher. How, when & i don’t remember . . . but I do remember how it made me feel. Twenty four years fast forward ⏩ it still makes my entire body shake. Love ?!!
Original Roman bronze, c. 173-176 C.E. The initial location of the sculpture is unknown though it had been housed in the Lateran Palace since the 8th century until it was placed in the center of the Piazza del Campidoglio by Michelangelo in 1538. The original is now indoors for purposes of conservation. Marcus Aurelius ruled 161-180 C.E.
Well, apart from the bridges of course. Quite probably one of the oldest bridges in Scotland, dating from when the Romans pushed forward from the traditional northern boundary of their empire, Hadrian's Wall in England, into the Pictish tribelands of Scotland. The incursion lasted from 138 to 164AD, and was marked by the building of a new barricade, the Antonine Wall, under Emperor Antoninus Pius. Antoninus was unable to conquer the northern tribes - well, they were Scottish after all - and so when Marcus Aurelius became emperor he abandoned the Antonine Wall and occupied Hadrian's Wall once again in 164AD.
This 1850-year-old arched bridge, across South Calder Water just before it flows into Strathclyde Loch, was built to serve the nearby Bothwellhaugh Roman Fort and its bath house, the remains of which can still be seen.
Taken in Strathclyde Country Park, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, on December 31, 2007.
Faustina Minor (the Younger), daughter of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius and Faustina Major and herself the wife of emperor Marcus Aurelius (161-180 CE), is swathed in a himation (mantle), which covers her head in a veil, and a thin chiton (tunic). This 'orans' type (praying) statue, was often employed in representations of female figures belonging to the imperial family, starting in the Augustan period (27 BCE-14 CE).
The attributes in her hands are from a modern restoration. The hands should be in ancient orans position, palms up and facing forward.
Roman, around 175 CE.
Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome (inv. 68)
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
Roma, 26 IV 121 – Vindobona (Wien), 17 III 180 AD;
Munchen Glyptothek
Love Your Enemy - A Stoic Principle - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
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I was originally enrolled into the GETTY IMAGES collection as a contributor on April 9th 2012, and when links with FLICKR were terminated in March 2014, I was retained and fortunate enough to be signed up via a second contract, both of which have proved to be successful with sales of my photographs all over the world now handled exclusively by them.
On November 12th 2015 GETTY IMAGES unveiled plans for a new stills upload platform called ESP (Enterprise Submission Platform), to replace the existing 'Moment portal', and on November 13th I was invited to Beta test the new system prior to it being officially rolled out in December. (ESP went live on Tuesday December 15th 2015 and has smoothed out the upload process considerably).
With visits now in excess of 19.941 Million to my FLICKR site, used primarily these days as a fun platform to reach friends and family as I have now sold my professional gear and now take a more leisurely approach to my photographic exploits, I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to FLICKR, GETTY IMAGES and everyone who drops by.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Forty two metres at 09:57am on Friday April 14th 2017, of one of the two giant statues of Kastor and Polydeuces(Castor and Pollux) located in the Campidoglio (Collis Capitolinus or The Capitaline Hill), between the Roman Forum and Campus Martius, Rome, Italy.
Legend says that Castor and Pollux were twin brothers or Dioscuri (dioskouroi), who's mother was Leda. Castor's father was Tyndareus, King of Sparta while Pollux was the divine son of Zeus. In Latin the brothers are known as Gemini or Castores, and when Castor was killed, Pollux asked Zeus to let hgim share his own immortality, thus they were transformed into the Constellation Gemini. They were seen as patrons of sailors, apopearing to them as St Elmo's fire (St Erasmus of Formia), and also associated with horsemanship.
The two statues were originally part of Michelangelo's vision of the Piazza del Campidoglio, but were never realised. Giacomo Della Porta built the balustrade in the square in 1578, and fragments of the statues were located in the ghetto, along with previously found pieces which Pope Gregory XIII ordered be gathered and restored. The head of the statue in this photograph was never found and thus a new one had to be made, and work was completed in 1582.
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"This masterful portrait of Marcus Aurelius (reigned AD 161-180) captures the pensive temperament of the philosopher-emperor and author of the celebrated "Meditations," reflections on life and the ways of the gods. The smooth, softly modeled carving of the flesh contrasts markedly with the mass of thick, curling hair. The drooping eyelids and detached gaze suggest his contemplative nature." - Walters Art Museum
Photographed at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.
Side view of this remarkable bust, showing the small tool marks that shaped the figure and the sculpting of the hair and beard. Weighing 3.5 pounds and hammered from a single sheet of metal, this hollow gold bust - known as an imago - was likely attached to a wooden structure that could be carried in ceremonial processions by a imaginifer. The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (ruled 161-180 CE) is identifiable from his many portraits in marble and on coins. He was a highly respected ruler, a noted Stoic philosopher and writer, and a successful general who spent the later years of his reign fighting Germanic tribes on the northern border of the empire. Here he wears a breastplate decorated with a winged head of the Gorgon Medusa (the aegis), symbolizing protection.
The artistry of the work - the hairstyle, the large eyes, the forward-facing pose - seems to suggest that it may have been made by local Celtic craftsmen (two native goldsmiths were known to have been working in Aventicum at this time). However, that’s not certain and it’s an area of much debate.
Found on April 19, 1939, in the drains below the ancient Cigognier sanctuary of Roman Aventicum (Aveches, Switzerland)
Roman or Romano-Celtic, ca. 161-180 CE.
Exhibited at the Getty Villa Museum in Malibu, on loan from its usual home in the vaults of a bank in Lausanne, Switzerland. A copy of the bust is on display at the Roman Museum in Aveches.
Copy in the Piazza del Campidoglio where Michelangelo placed the original. The original is now indoors for purposes of conservation.
Marcus Aurelius was Roman emperor from 8 March 161 to 17 March 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers traditionally known as the Five Good Emperors, and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace and stability for the Roman Empire. He was also consul in 140, 145, and 161
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