Hand of Constantine's Bronze Colossus Reunited with Missing Fingers from Louvre

The Capitoline Museums in Rome have reassembled the hand of the bronze Colossus of Constantine, adding two phalanges of the index finger from the Louvre's Campana Collection. The collaboration between the two museums, facilitated by Louvre President-Director Jean-Luc Martinez, allows visitors to see the 4th-century CE sculpture in a more complete form. The hand, along with the head and globe, is displayed in the Esedra of Marcus Aurelius. The missing finger fragments were identified in 2018 through 3D modeling coordinated by Françoise Gaultier and Claudio Parisi Presicce. A fiberglass cast was made for temporary display during exhibitions dedicated to the Campana Collection at the Louvre and the Hermitage. The reassembly coincides with the 550th anniversary of the donation of the statue's remains to the Roman people by Pope Sixtus V in 1471. The Colossus originally stood 10–12 meters tall and was first described in the 12th century when it was in the Lateran. The hand had been complete until the 1530s, after which the index finger lost its upper phalanges. The fragment entered the Louvre in 1860 as part of the collection of Marquis Giampietro Campana.