Art & Architecture at the Capitoline

The afternoon of Wednesday 6 February found UD students ascending Capitoline Hill for their first on-site Art & Architecture class. Led by Dr. Laura Flusche, students paid a visit to the Capitoline Museums, the oldest public museum complex in the world.

In the Capitoline, they discussed the ways in which ancient Romans used art as a means of communication, taking as the subjects of their study such well-known works as the Colossal Sculpture of Constantine the Great (shown above), the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, the She-Wolf, and the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius.

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