Trajan's Column — ceramic art tile

Trajan's Column

Keepsake · 2 in / Glossy / Loose
$22.00
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Trajan's Column — ceramic art tile
  • Trajan's Column — ceramic art tile
  • Trajan's Column — front
  • Trajan's Column — scale
  • Trajan's Column — gifting
  • Trajan's Column — grouping
  • Above the bench, in a warm oak surround.
  • Beside the kettle, propped on the counter.
  • Above the linens, in a slim black surround.
  • On the nightstand, on a light oak stand.
  • On a picture ledge, where the light comes in.
  • Trajan's Column — ceramic art tile
  • Trajan's Column — front
  • Trajan's Column — scale
  • Trajan's Column — gifting
  • Trajan's Column — grouping
  • Above the bench, in a warm oak surround.
  • Beside the kettle, propped on the counter.
  • Above the linens, in a slim black surround.
  • On the nightstand, on a light oak stand.
  • On a picture ledge, where the light comes in.
Trajan's Column

Trajan's Column

$22.00
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A marble column rising thirty metres above the ruins of Trajan's Forum, a block off Piazza Venezia. Around it spirals a continuous frieze: Roman soldiers building bridges, marching, fighting; Dacian villages burning; the same scene the empire chose to remember of itself, repeated upward by hand for almost two thousand years. The bronze figure on top was replaced by Saint Peter in 1587. Apollodorus of Damascus is presumed to have designed both the architecture and the relief. From the pavement, the upper bands are unreadable. The column was built taller than its own audience. It is still there.

Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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