Artist Creates Stunning Photo-Realistic Images of Roman Emperors

The Vintage ^ | 09/04/2020 | steve Palace

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Nero looks a bit like the p-whipped royal Harry

[hanamizu]

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.

[Brilliant]

Pat Buchanan, upper right.

[aquila48]

“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

[Red Badger]

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

[SunkenCiv]

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

[SunkenCiv]

AI helps designer resurrect Roman rulers of the past

[Kid Shelleen]

>> 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

[baclava]

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.

[Sans-Culotte]

Cool.

[SunkenCiv]

[Red Badger]

[Chainmail]

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.

[Verginius Rufus]

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.

[goldbux]

Julius's image isn't shown, since everyone knows he looked just like Paul Newman on the label of his eponymous Caesar salad dressing.

[DCBryan1]

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!

[PIF]

Hi-Res

[Who is John Galt?]

Pat Buchanan, upper right.

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

;^)

[Libloather]

Hansel? Hansel?

[the OlLine Rebel]

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.