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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Magnus Maximus, post: 2308053, member: 73473&quot;]I wondered that to.</p><p>I think this is the answer</p><p><i>&quot;Portraits of the emperor served the highly important function in imperial propaganda of presenting the ruler to the public and of projecting the personality with which he wished to be perceived. Leadership and military strength are evoked in the heroic nudity of the figure and in the pose, which recalls the famous statue of Alexander the Great with the Lance by Lysippos. In contrast to the idealized body, the portrait head represents the emperor with brutish realism. Trebonianus likely would have cradled a parazonium, or short sword, in his left arm, and held a spear in his upraised right hand.&quot;</i></p><p>From</p><p><a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/247117?=&amp;imgno=0&amp;tabname=label" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/247117?=&amp;imgno=0&amp;tabname=label" rel="nofollow">http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/247117?=&amp;imgno=0&amp;tabname=label</a></p><p>I do know that 3rd century Roman art was very realistic and not big on idealization like during the Julio Claudians or Antonines.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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