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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4633719, member: 110504&quot;]I wonder if it make sense to see a progression from idealized portraiture under the earlier Julio-Claudians (...where would the supposed cut-off point be?), to a sharp increase in realism with Nero (a little ironically, in light of his &#039;career Naricissism&#039;?), which is then accelerated during the ensuing civil wars, and sustained, at least initially, under the Flavians.</p><p>The portraiture under the Antonines and Severans strikes me, impressionistically, almost as a return to the &#039;idealized naturalism&#039; of the earlier Julio-Claudians.&nbsp; Maybe the aesthetic equivalent of a &quot;return to normalcy,&quot; however aspirationally, especially under the Severans.</p><p>It would be fun if someone who knows a Heck of a lot more than me weighed in on this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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