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Real Life Augustus! Reading descriptions of what Augustus Looked like, this is the best real life reconstruction I have seen. Used with permission from our friends at: Verein Cultura Romana Vivat VCRV > http://www.vcrv.ch> VCRV Cultura Romana Vivat Gruppe fr die rmische Antike und Lebendige > Geschichte  |
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Pillar of the Community
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How does the image you post compare to the image on the coinage? Here are two of mine:   I think the likeness is striking. |
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Lots of character in that face.
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Bedrock of the Community
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TLAR
That Looks About Right
Strangely, I have used this approach after completing a design, and after doing all of the investigations and calculations, and CAD modelling. It provides a good artistic check on your work. That's something all good engineering design seems to have in common. Also helps to sell it to a client.
In this case not too hard to guess to whom each of these images belong.
Joe: Thanks for sharing. I have only seen pictures of plaster or marble busts in this context before.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Those reconstructions are fascinating, particularly seeing Imperial Roman sculptures in color.
I suspect that visiting Rome, at the height of the empire, would have been breathtaking.
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I suspect that visiting Rome, at the height of the empire, would have been breathtaking. In more ways than one. A city of a million people even with the fastidiousness of the Romans had to "take your breath away" as well. I can't even imagine the smell. |
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Bedrock of the Community
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 Or any major large city pre-automobile, with those thousands of horses and their manure. Major culture shock no doubt, but if time travel were possible, I'd love to see what Rome was really like. |
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'What has four wheels and flies?'  A Roman street with a horse drawn cart in it!'  |
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even in this case very interesting....
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Posted 01/15/2012 11:47 pm
