Translation for "kolossalstatuen" to english
Kolossalstatuen
Translation examples
Iblis fühlte sich an die vielen Kolossalstatuen erinnert, die die Titanen zur Erinnerung an die Tage ihres Ruhms erstellt hatten ...
Iblis was reminded of all the colossal statues and monuments the Titans had insisted on building to commemorate their glory days….
In Gesellschaft seiner humanistischen Freunde konnte Poggio versuchen, das Bild dessen heraufzubeschwören, was einst war: »Werft euren Blick auf den Hügel des Kapitols und sucht unter den riesigen zertrümmerten Fragmenten das Marmortheater, die Obelisken, die Kolossalstatuen, den Portikus von Neros Palast.« Doch nach seinen Ausflügen in die Antike waren es stets die zerrissene Gegenwart, die Trümmer, zu denen der päpstliche Bürokrat wieder zurückfinden musste.
In the company of his humanist friends, Poggio could try to conjure up what it all must once have looked like: “Cast your eyes on the Palatine hill, and seek, among the shapeless and enormous fragments, the marble theatre, the obelisks, the colossal statues, the porticoes of Nero’s palace.” But it was to the shattered present that, after his brief imaginary excursions into antiquity, the papal bureaucrat always had to return.
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