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Artist Creates Stunning Photo-Realistic Images of Roman Emperors
The Vintage ^ | 09/04/2020 | steve Palace

Posted on 09/04/2020 9:47:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin

How accurate are these 21st century recreations? Voshart is the first to admit this is a creative project more than a historical one. He tells Smithsonian Magazine the results are “my artistic interpretation”. On Medium he writes the images are “more art than science”.

“Sculptures and busts were idealized images of the emperors” states archaeologist Jane Fejfer from the University of Copenhagen. Referring to Emperor Augustus – the first to rule the Empire from 27 BC – AD 14 – she outlines how “mass-produced models were sent out to local workshops around the kingdom, which they then carved the portraits of”.

Realism and accuracy weren’t the main objective. Fejfer points out that in Augustus’ case he remained forever young. His 41 year reign wasn’t reflected in those portraits’ youthful depictions. She believes “on the whole, the emperor used the portraits to convey his ideology”. For those too out of range to see Augustus in person, a glamorous bust was the next best thing.

(Excerpt) Read more at thevintagenews.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; History
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; art; godsgravesglyphs; images; romanemperors; romanempire; rome
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To: Verginius Rufus

Nero looks a bit like the p-whipped royal Harry


21 posted on 09/04/2020 10:20:38 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: BenLurkin

Roman coins, especially in the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D. had very realistic portraits of the emperors. Some of the best come from Nero’s reign. He liked to think of himself as artistic and his coins tend to be almost cruelly realistic. He put on some weight during his reign.

As time moved on, Roman coin art became much more stylized, each emperor looking pretty much the same by the 4th century.


22 posted on 09/04/2020 10:21:23 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Red Badger

Pat Buchanan, upper right.


23 posted on 09/04/2020 10:23:25 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: PGR88

“Nero was a redhead?

What were the genetics of Romans before various invasions of Germanic tribes, Muslims, Byzantines, etc…?”

Latins, Etruscans, and many other local tribes plus various from migrations...

http://www.naplesldm.com/ancient.php


24 posted on 09/04/2020 10:24:49 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: Brilliant

GORDIAN III - Ed Norton.................young actor, not Art Carney ...............


25 posted on 09/04/2020 10:30:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: BenLurkin

And, they called Gaius “Caligula”. ;^) Interesting project, Sez here there were about 70 Roman emperors from 27 BC to 476 AD. [wiki-wacky] Neat idea. Not much to go on for any of them, because there are literally no known remains of any of them (lots of cremations, a few thrown into the Tiber, that kind of thing). Sidebar, the Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome was actually the Mausoleum of Hadrian.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/1_ikkpayp90mzz7vqwknas7a.jpeg


26 posted on 09/04/2020 10:36:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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AI helps designer resurrect Roman rulers of the past

AI helps designer resurrect Roman rulers of the past

27 posted on 09/04/2020 10:42:24 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine; PGR88
>> What were the genetics of Romans before various invasions of Germanic tribes, Muslims, Byzantines, etc…?

You may find this interesting. It is a little above my head. .

Italic peoples
28 posted on 09/04/2020 10:47:42 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: cuban leaf

Awww they weren’t so bad, kept the economy and trade going.

Roman peasants were better off under these guys than those under early medieval rule. They had their own homes with paved floors and their animals had their own rooms!

Took a thousand years to get out of the slop of the dark ages after Rome fell for things to improve again.


29 posted on 09/04/2020 10:55:17 AM PDT by baclava
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To: BenLurkin

Cool.


30 posted on 09/04/2020 11:07:44 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Does the left like anything about America?)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...

31 posted on 09/04/2020 11:08:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

32 posted on 09/04/2020 11:29:20 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: Verginius Rufus
Nonetheless, Julius was cut short of the title - but deserves to be on the list because he started the whole imperial process..

Constantine is a personal favorite - given the oddities of Roman leadership style, he was the first step into relative normalcy.

33 posted on 09/04/2020 11:35:29 AM PDT by Chainmail (Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

I don’t know if Harry is a great artist or great singer like Nero was (or at least thought he was). At any rate he can’t follow Nero’s example and kill his mother since Princess Diana died in that automobile crash.


34 posted on 09/04/2020 11:43:56 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: goldbux; All
Julius's image isn't shown, since everyone knows he looked just like Paul Newman on the label of his eponymous Caesar salad dressing.
35 posted on 09/04/2020 11:59:49 AM PDT by goldbux (No sufficiently rich interpreted language can represent its own semantics. -- Alfred Tarski, 1936)
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To: BenLurkin

WTF! Everyone knows the Romans were Black! Everyone! Hell, even Napoleon and Alexander the Great were Black Kangs and stuff. and Cleopatra was a black Queen!


36 posted on 09/04/2020 12:41:58 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (COMDEMS would rather rule over a pile of ashes, than lose to Trump and REAL Americans)
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To: BenLurkin
Hi-Res

37 posted on 09/04/2020 1:01:37 PM PDT by PIF (`)
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To: Brilliant
Pat Buchanan, upper right.

Exactly right - who knew ol' Pat was a descendant of Emperor Vespasian?

;^)

38 posted on 09/04/2020 1:09:29 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ('Urban Dictionary' - a website of the urban dicks, by the urban dicks, and for the urban dicks.)
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To: BenLurkin

Hansel? Hansel?


39 posted on 09/04/2020 1:43:22 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I’ve always suspected what everyone calls Italian is actually highly Greek in genetics. The Greeks had not really intermixed with Romans so it’s doubtful they were much like Italians since the Fall.


40 posted on 09/04/2020 2:17:52 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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