LA CIVILTÀ ROMANA · VITTORIO STORARO
A winged Victory.
One frame of film.
The Arch of Victory.
● Plastico di Roma, Museum of Roman Civilization · Rome, Italy
Three-time Oscar-winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro set a winged Victory and a trophy of armour across the golden model of ancient Rome, in one frame of film.
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THE STORY
After a battle, the enemy's armour was hung on a tree where they turned and ran. Rome brought its victories home, and built them in stone.
The golden city in the frame is the Plastico di Roma, Italo Gismondi's great model of ancient Rome in the age of Constantine, at the Museum of Roman Civilization in Rome. The relief of the winged Victory is in the Vatican Museums.
Three Academy Awards for cinematography: Apocalypse Now, 1980; Reds, 1982; The Last Emperor, 1988. Then he spent five years photographing the Roman world.
Created with a film camera. A double exposure made directly on the same negative, in a single frame. No Photoshop. He photographed the arch as two gates: a gate for victory, and a gate for light.
OWN THE PRINT
Bring the arch home.
Printed from his original slide on fine art paper, and shipped free in the US. Captured in camera, on film, by a three-time Academy Award winner.
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