Arch of Costantine. Rome. Italy Audiobook (Free)

The audioguide tells the storyplot, represents the architecture and reports interesting factual statements about the triumphal arch of Constantine, in Rome, between the Colosseum as well as the Palatine, and was created by the founder of Constantinople.

The three-hole arc was built in the years 312-315 to celebrate Constantine’s victory over Massenzio, in the fight fought at Milvio bridge, but also the tenth anniversary from the Emperor’s government. The arch of Constantine may be the latest of the three triumphal arches about Arch of Costantine. Rome. Italy surviving in Rome. To decorate it, new bas-reliefs were created, but mostly decorative burial elements had been used, attracted from older monuments, probably damaged with the fires of 283 and 307 Advertisement.

The Arch of Constantine is similar to a big book that shows us more than two centuries of Roman art.

This magnificent work of art has been preserved to this day because of the fact that Constantine was considered the first Christian Emperor. It is no coincidence that, in his dedication, his victory is definitely provided as the fulfillment of God’s will. That’s the reason the triumphal arch did not suffer the destiny of several pagan monuments, although there are traces of this culture. Before end of the 15th century the monument was examined and restored, several times.

In 1530 Lorenzino de Medici was expelled from Rome for daring to mutilate some of the heads of the bas-reliefs. The mind were reintegrated just in the 18th century. You can examine the 3D model of the cathedral and observe its interior through the MuByz App. The audioguide has been made by specialists in neuro-scientific history and art.