Statue of Trajan and the She-wolf
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April 2012 (unveiled)
| Statue of Trajan and the She-wolf | |
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| Artist | Vasile Gorduz |
| Year | November 2011 (installed) April 2012 (unveiled) |
| Type | bronze sculpture |
| Dimensions | 215 cm (85 in) |
| Location | Bucharest |
| 44°25′53″N 26°5′49″E / 44.43139°N 26.09694°E | |
| Owner | Bucharest Municipality |
The Statue of Trajan and the She-wolf is a statue by Vasile Gorduz that was once located on the steps of the National Museum of Romanian History on Calea Victoriei in central Bucharest. It depicts a nude Trajan holding in his arms the Capitoline Wolf, which is doubled as the Dacian Draco, the war standard of the Dacians.
The 2.15 metres (7 ft 1 in) high statue is made out of bronze and has a weight of 500 kilograms (1,100 lb). The cost of the statue was around 200,000 lei (45,000 €)[1] The artist created three copies of the sculpture: another is located in Sevilla, Spain, on the banks of the Guadalquivir, and another in Rome, in front of Accademia di Romania.[1]
The sculpture depicts Trajan, the Roman emperor who conquered Dacia, the province located in today's Romania and considered one of the "parents" of the Romanian nation. In his arms, in fact appearing to levitate above his arms, is the Capitoline Wolf, the she-wolf in the founding myth of Rome. The head of the wolf is joined to the tail of a Dacian Draco.[1]
