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Message:: [QUOTE="BenSi, post: 24875331, member: 95174"]He is a good man that I consider as a friend as well. That beautiful Alexius more than likely came from his personal collection. As for the art of Christian Roman coins, it does change, for various reasons. The biggest change was Spiritualism a Greek philosophy that basically said true beauty comes from within, our shells mean nothing. This was incorporated in all three of the Abrahamic religions. So your life like images were no longer depicted. [ATTACH=full]1596645[/ATTACH] Here is an End of the empire example of spiritualism. Christ is depicted with the least amount of lines making him very abstract. Yes some of the earlier types were beautiful but not in a neo classical way.[ATTACH=full]1596653[/ATTACH] In the Post Roman Empire coinage, the artist in general became a tradesman, a person who created for commission, they were told what to depict. It was not until the Renaissance, that a love for the old Greek and Roman art returned, the artist became an intellectual again.[/QUOTE]