{"id":62619,"date":"2020-05-08T22:30:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T20:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=62619"},"modified":"2020-05-08T22:30:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T20:30:43","slug":"apotheosis-of-claudius-wonderful-roman-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/apotheosis-of-claudius-wonderful-roman-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Apotheosis of Claudius &#8211; wonderful Roman sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Prado Museum in Madrid has a wonderful Roman marble sculpture in collection, which received the name &#8220;Apotheosis of Claudius&#8221;. In the upper part of the sculpture is beautifully shaped <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/eagle-symbol-of-rome\/\">eagle<\/a>, which is on the pile of weapons. The eagle holds lightning in one claw and an orb in the other.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The composition is on a rectangular grave pedestal, on the urn that has gone missing (probably containing the remains of Korwinus). The object was built during the reign of Octavian <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/augustus\/\">Augustus<\/a> (27 BCE &#8211; 14 CE). The sculpture has the inscription: <em>IMPERATOR\u00b7CAESAR\u00b7DIVI\u00b7FILIVS\u00b7AVGVSTVS<\/em>, meaning &#8220;Emperor <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/caesar-queen-of-nicomedes\/\">Caesar<\/a> Augustus, son of the deified [<a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/gaius-julius-caesar\/\">Julius Caesar<\/a>]&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The object was found in the village villa of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus (64 BCE &#8211; 13 CE), Roman commander, politician, patron of the arts, comrade of Augustus.<\/p>\n<p>Where does the name of the sculpture come from? In about 1650, at the behest of cardinal Girolamo Colonna, for unknown reasons the Italian sculptor &#8211; Orfeo Boselli &#8211; added a bust of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/claudius\/\">Emperor Claudius<\/a> on the wings of an eagle. This was to symbolize the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-empire\/imperial-cult\/\">deification<\/a> of Claudius, who was raised to the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/gods-of-ancient-rome\/\">gods<\/a> by the victorious eagle. Interestingly, the bust was lost, and the name remained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":62617,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[61],"class_list":["post-62619","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-artifact"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/62619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/62619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=62619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}