Saturday, August 25, 2012

The Colossus of Barletta


Impressive statue in the city of Barletta in Italy.

From Wikipedia: 

The statue reportedly washed up on a shore, after a Venetian ship sank returning from the sack of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade in 1204, but it is not impossible that the statue was sent to the West much earlier. The identity of the Emperor is uncertain.

Imagine finding such a statue while walking on some shore.


2 comments:

Steven Lester said...

I'll bet it's Constitine. He liked those big statues of himself.

Steven Lester said...

I meant, Constintine