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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 4632060, member: 84744"]Donna's point about accuracy is well taken, although I think in Caracalla's case we can be pretty confident due to the large number of busts that have been found.</p><p><br /></p><p>"Lifelike" portraits are a small collecting theme of mine, at least I'm certainly attracted to portraits that are more lifelike than average for a particular emperor. (Lifelike in the sense of "look like a real human" rather than accurate.) My best Caracalla in this sense is probably this one:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1145640[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>It's not that hard to find realism in 1st century portraits, but this Otho die is better than most in this respect, IMO:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1145642[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A realistic Titus:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1145651[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A. Pi's portraits are often quite realistic, but this portrait as Caesar is unusually good, I think:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1145643[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Marcus Aurelius portraits are often quite cartoonish. This one not as much:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1145644[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>(Compare, for example, to this portrait which is more typical:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1145645[/ATTACH] </p><p>)</p><p><br /></p><p>An early SA portrait with some realistic flavour:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1145648[/ATTACH] </p><p>(For later SA, I like my avatar coin. Masked right now though!)</p><p><br /></p><p>There are lots of crappy portraits from the mid third century. I bought this Valerian because I thought it had a more lifelike portrait than most:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1145649[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And a sole-reign Gallienus (hard to find anything remotely realistic post-260):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1145652[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, here's a surprisingly realistic Postumus:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1145650[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I hope [USER=100777]@octavius[/USER] drops into this thread... he has some of the most amazingly realistic portraits I've seen![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 4632060, member: 84744"]Donna's point about accuracy is well taken, although I think in Caracalla's case we can be pretty confident due to the large number of busts that have been found. "Lifelike" portraits are a small collecting theme of mine, at least I'm certainly attracted to portraits that are more lifelike than average for a particular emperor. (Lifelike in the sense of "look like a real human" rather than accurate.) My best Caracalla in this sense is probably this one: [ATTACH=full]1145640[/ATTACH] It's not that hard to find realism in 1st century portraits, but this Otho die is better than most in this respect, IMO: [ATTACH=full]1145642[/ATTACH] A realistic Titus: [ATTACH=full]1145651[/ATTACH] A. Pi's portraits are often quite realistic, but this portrait as Caesar is unusually good, I think: [ATTACH=full]1145643[/ATTACH] Marcus Aurelius portraits are often quite cartoonish. This one not as much: [ATTACH=full]1145644[/ATTACH] (Compare, for example, to this portrait which is more typical: [ATTACH=full]1145645[/ATTACH] ) An early SA portrait with some realistic flavour: [ATTACH=full]1145648[/ATTACH] (For later SA, I like my avatar coin. Masked right now though!) There are lots of crappy portraits from the mid third century. I bought this Valerian because I thought it had a more lifelike portrait than most: [ATTACH=full]1145649[/ATTACH] And a sole-reign Gallienus (hard to find anything remotely realistic post-260): [ATTACH=full]1145652[/ATTACH] Finally, here's a surprisingly realistic Postumus: [ATTACH=full]1145650[/ATTACH] I hope [USER=100777]@octavius[/USER] drops into this thread... he has some of the most amazingly realistic portraits I've seen![/QUOTE]
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