AI helps designer resurrect Roman rulers of the past
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.
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Nero looks a bit like the p-whipped royal Harry
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.
Pat Buchanan, upper right.
“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
GORDIAN III - Ed Norton.................young actor, not Art Carney ...............
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
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.
Cool.
Constantine is a personal favorite - given the oddities of Roman leadership style, he was the first step into relative normalcy.
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.
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!
Exactly right - who knew ol' Pat was a descendant of Emperor Vespasian?
;^)
Hansel? Hansel?
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.
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