Portrait of Four Tetrarchs (Venice, Italy)

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"The first context of the column is unknown (perhaps first in Nicomedia). In a second phase it was used in Constantinople, probably as statues of the sons of Constantine embracing one another and made of porphyry’ mentioned in the ancient sources on a place called after them Philadelphion. A part of the missing foot has been found in 1965 in the excavations of the rotunda near the Myrelaion church in Istanbul. With the loot of the fourth crusade of 1204 the group came to Venice and was inserted into the facade of San Marco." (Citation: https://www.thebyzantinelegacy.com/tetrarchs ) Photographed using a GoPro Hero4 in clear conditions.