30-04-2021 17:29 via artnews.com

Colossal Statue of Roman Emperor Regains Missing Finger Discovered in Louvre’s Collection

After more than 500 years, a colossal bronze statue of Constantine the Great in Rome’s Capitoline Museums has been given back its missing finger. Its foot-long index finger was remounted on the stature on Wednesday, per a report in the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero. The director of the Capitoline Museums, Claudio Parisi Presicce, told the publication that the digit was restored “using a non-invasive, reversible and invisible system.”
For years, the ancient finger sat in the c
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