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Winged Victories
Vittorio Emanuele II Bridge
Rome Italy
2016

"Winged Victories"
Winged figures, very often in pairs, representing victory and referred to as winged victories, are common in Roman official iconography, typically hovering high in a composition, and often filling spaces in spandrels or other gaps in architecture. These represent the "spirit of victory" rather than a full-blown deity. Pairs of winged victories continued to appear after the Christianization of the Roman Empire and gradually evolved into depictions of Christian angels. A pair, facing inwards, fitted very conveniently into the spandrels of arches, and have been very common in Triumphal arches and similar designs where a circular element is framed by a rectangle.
Vittorio Emanuele II, a bridge named after Italy's first king Victor Emmanuel II (r. 1861-78), was designed by Ennio de Rossi and inaugurated in 1911 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the Kingdom of It...

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