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Today's photo-of-the-day is of Bigfoot, or rather a big foot because we're not in the forests of North America. We're in the Capitoline Museums in Rome.
According to Wikipedia, "The museums display works from the ancient world (Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Egyptian), the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. They house masterpieces such as the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, the Capitoline Wolf, the Dying Gaul, the Bust of Medusa by Bernini, ancient sculptures, paintings (with works by artists such as Caravaggio, Titian, Pietro da Cortona, Guercino, Velázquez, Rubens), coins, jewelry and archaeological finds."
"The large foot on display at the Capitoline Museums in Rome is a fragment of the Colossus of Constantine, a gigantic marble statue of Emperor Constantine the Great, believed to be around 12 meters (40 feet) tall. Each of the monumental feet is over 2 meters (7 feet) long, and they are displayed in the Palazzo dei Conservatori area of the museum, where they have amazed visitors for centuries."
"Fragment of a king,
Colossus broken, yet vast,
Now still; still mighty."
— h/t ChatGPT
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