Trajan Capitoline Wolf

The Capitoline Wolf and Column of Trajan retell their respective stories of Roman prestige and authority, acting as lasting representations of Romanatis and propaganda. The Capitoline Wolf (see Figure 1) is an in-the-round bronze structure held in the Capitoline Museum in Rome. It depicts a standing, long-necked wolf with its teeth exposed, providing milk for two human babies. She has defined curls along her neck and clear musculature on the front half of her body, lacking in the back half. Her ribs are exposed through her skin, and her head is turned. The two babies are under her stomach, each assigned a teet to feed from. They have more dynamic poses, with their legs sprawled out, their hands reaching, and their heads tilted upward. This imagery of the statue is important to Roman culture, as wolves were their chosen symbol of the city. …show more content…
”The image of this miracle quickly became a symbol of the city of Rome,” and can be pictured throughout the city on architecture, money, and even trash cans (Neel). Another important piece of Roman history is the 98-foot-tall Column of Trajan (see Figure 2), which is made of Luna marble and still resides in its birthplace, Trajan’s Forum. Inside, 185 steps lead to a viewing platform at the very top, and the base of the column holds the ashes of the Roman emperor from 98-117 C.E., Trajan. A frieze depicting Trajan in wars in Dacia spirals along the structure's surface. These detailed high-relief narrative carvings can be viewed higher up from platforms on surrounding buildings. To “commemorate” victories in battle, the lower half of the column shows sequences from the first Dacian War, and the top half does the same for the

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