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The Top of Trajan's Column

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Taken with a telephoto lens from half a football field away.

Originally the Column appears to have been crowned by a statue of the emperor Trajan himself, as is only logical. This statue "disappeared" during the Middle Ages: in 1587, Pope Sixtus V seized the opportunity to Christianize the monument with this depiction of the apostle, looking for all like a fashionable Roman nobleman of the period. The statue is by a pair of relatively little known artists, Tommaso della Porta (c. 1550‑1606) and Leonardo da Sarzana (before 1530 - after 1589).

St. Peter is looking towards the Vatican, naturally.

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