Tevereterno, Kristin Jones, piazza tevere, tiber river
Tevereterno, Kristin Jones, piazza tevere, tiber river

Kristin Jones, She Wolves (2005), Piazza Tevere, Rome. Photo: Erica Kruger

Kristin Jones, She Wolves, Piazza Tevere, Rome.
From a 5th Century BCE funerary relief, Archeological
Museum, Bologna.
Illustration in collaboration
with Francesca Fini.
Photo: Mimmo Capone

Kristin Jones, She Wolves (2005), Piazza Tevere, Rome.
From 1021 – 1153 CE:
Three-dimensional bronze
sculpture of Capitoline
She-Wolf, Capitoline
Museum, Rome.
Illustration in collaboration
with Francesca Fini.
Photo: Mimmo Capone

Kristin Jones, She Wolves (2005), Piazza Tevere, Rome.
From a small 224 – 641 AD:
Sassanide amulet,
Falkiner Collection, London.
Illustration in collaboration
with Francesca Fini.
Photo: Mimmo Capone

Kristin Jones, She Wolves (2005), Piazza Tevere, Rome.
From a 124 BCE:
Stone ara, Ostia,
National Museum, Rome.
Illustration in collaboration
with Francesca Fini.
Photo: Mimmo Capone.

Kristin Jones, She Wolves (2005), Piazza Tevere, Rome.
From a 898 BCE:
Ivory carving, Rambona,
Vatican Library,
The Vatican, Rome.
Illustration in collaboration
with Francesca Fini.
Photo: Mimmo Capone

Kristin Jones, She Wolves (2005), Piazza Tevere, Rome.
From a 46 BCE: Silver coin,
Capitoline Museum, Rome.
Illustration in collaboration
with Francesca Fini.
Photo: Mimmo Capone

Kristin Jones, She Wolves (2005), Piazza Tevere, Rome.
From a 330 – 37 AD:
Bronze medal, Constantine,
Capitoline Museum, Rome.
Illustration in collaboration
with Francesca Fini.
Photo: Mimmo Capone

Kristin Jones, She Wolves (2005), Piazza Tevere, Rome.
From the 1469 – 70 AD:
Affresco di Settembre
a fresco, Schifanoia Palace, Ferrara.
Illustration in collaboration
with Francesca Fini.
Photo: Mimmo Capone

Kristin Jones, She Wolves (2005), Piazza Tevere, Rome.
From a 75 BCE: Coin,
Capitoline Museum, Rome.
Illustration in collaboration
with Francesca Fini.
Photo: Mimmo Capone

Kristin Jones, She Wolves (2005), Piazza Tevere, Rome.
Rendered from a 1500 AD three-dimensional red marble sculpture, the Borghese Collection, Louvre Museum, Paris.
Photo: Mimmo Capone

Kristin Jones, She Wolves (2005), Piazza Tevere, Rome.
Rendered from a 1597 – 1602 AD lithograph by Jean Jacques Boissard, Frankfort.
Photo: Mimmo Capone

Tevereterno, Kristin Jones, piazza tevere, tiber river

Kristin Jones, She Wolves (2005), Piazza Tevere, Rome. Rendered from a 1597 – 1602 AD lithograph by Jean Jacques Boissard, Frankfort.
Photo: Mimmo Capone

Tevereterno, Kristin Jones, piazza tevere, tiber riverTevereterno, Kristin Jones, piazza tevere, tiber river

She Wolves

SHE WOLVES

Location: Piazza Tevere, between Ponte Sisto and Ponte Mazzini, Rome, Italy

Illustrations: Francesca Fini

Dimensions: 1800′ L

Materials: Water, Travertine, Biological Patina

Kristin Jones‘ She Wolves brought the mythic symbol to life on the banks of the Tiber as a tribute to Rome in celebration of it’s 2,758th birthday. The city’s Department of Sanitation collaborated with Jones to power-wash the darkened travertine embankment walls to reveal twelve majestic She-Wolves, accurately drawn from historical sources and etched from the patina of history. The shadowed procession of silhouettes faced downstream, where the river meets the sea. The frieze stood eight meters high and spanned 560 meters of the Piazza Tevere, between Ponte Sisto and Ponte Mazzini.

 

As the archetypal symbol of Rome for millennia, the She-Wolf is the icon of the mythological beginning of the City, embodying the dichotomy between nature and culture. The legendary account of the City’s origins tell of the wild She-Wolf who rescues the infant twins of royal birth, Romulus and Remus, from the Tiber River. She-Wolves was researched under the guidance of archaeologist Claudio Parisi Presicce, the foremost scholar of the She-Wolf, who generously offered access to his catalogue of more than 300 images from the archives of the Capitoline Museum. With Presicce’s knowledge, historical images were selected from the nearly three-thousand-year history of the She-Wolf icon and rendered graphically by Francesca Fini.