The right hand of the Colossus of Constantine / Rome

Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Rome, 1952     

 Elliott Erwitt, 1968                                                                                   Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Capitoline Museum, Rome, 1952  

John Vink, 1981      

Josef Koudelka, 1985

The Colossus of Constantine c. 312–315 AD was a colossal acrolithic statue of the late Roman
 emperor Constantine the Great (c. 280–337) that once occupied the west apse of the Basilica of
 Maxentius near the Forum Romanum in Rome.