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This is a link post Strange, anachronistically modern bronze sculpture from ancient Rome
This bust struck me as very odd. The article doesn't comment on it, but it's such a realistic and dynamic portrait such that one wouldn't expect it to be from that time period.
 (I helped save b3ta! Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 16:17, Reply)
This is a normal post You should see Egyptian Tomb paintings.
Often very realistic and I think a bit of precursor to a more stylistic Christian Orthodox Iconography.
 (I helped save b3ta! Christian's Bolt and Ski, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 16:20, Reply)
This is a normal post Often very realistic...
...except for being entirely in profile and having no sense of perspective or scale?
 (SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 16:25, Reply)
This is a normal post Not the wall paintings you melon.
These are odd portraits. I'm not sure if they were done before or after the Greeks took over Egypt, however.
 (I helped save b3ta! Christian's Bolt and Ski, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 16:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh right
Sorry - I thought when you said tomb painting you meant the wall paintings. Yeah, the Mummy portraits are quite cool.
 (SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 16:52, Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah well I realise I wasn't exactly clear when I said "tomb paintings" when they're not quite that.
I studied them for a year at Foundation along with other iconographic bollocks. I guess inevitably when it comes to a descriptive short hand I've managed to remember them as "Pass us those pictures of the Egyptian Tomb Paintings, would you dear?"
 (I helped save b3ta! Christian's Bolt and Ski, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 16:55, Reply)
This is a normal post But why do they all have massive Doe eyes?

(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 17:16, Reply)
This is a normal post Early Anime

(North Utsira South Utsira, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 18:36, Reply)
This is a normal post thank you for that link I found it very interesting
never seen any of those before, or maybe I have but not known what they were
 (I helped save b3ta! zozamaroo, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 17:37, Reply)
This is a normal post wow, that's cool

(benito vaselini no not that one, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 16:28, Reply)
This is a normal post actually
I believe that that kind of realistic portrayal was pretty common in late ancient Greece and ancient Rome. Note that the sculpture is not supposed to depict someone handsome, but rather someone old (and therefore, by some Roman standards at least, someone ugly).
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 (cl1nt was named after dirty harry, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 18:39, Reply)