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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
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To: Verginius Rufus
Nero looks a bit like the p-whipped royal Harry
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.
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posted on
09/04/2020 10:21:23 AM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: Red Badger
Pat Buchanan, upper right.
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
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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.)
To: Brilliant
GORDIAN III - Ed Norton.................young actor, not Art Carney ...............
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posted on
09/04/2020 10:30:35 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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
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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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posted on
09/04/2020 10:42:24 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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
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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)
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.
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posted on
09/04/2020 10:55:17 AM PDT
by
baclava
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/04/2020 11:07:44 AM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(Does the left like anything about America?)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
09/04/2020 11:08:05 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/04/2020 11:29:20 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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.
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posted on
09/04/2020 11:35:29 AM PDT
by
Chainmail
(Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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.
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.
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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)
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!
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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)
To: BenLurkin
Hi-Res
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posted on
09/04/2020 1:01:37 PM PDT
by
PIF
(`)
To: Brilliant
Pat Buchanan, upper right. Exactly right - who knew ol' Pat was a descendant of Emperor Vespasian?
;^)
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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.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/04/2020 1:43:22 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: Pearls Before Swine
Ive always suspected what everyone calls Italian is actually highly Greek in genetics. The Greeks had not really intermixed with Romans so its doubtful they were much like Italians since the Fall.
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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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