what is going on with Leo I's face here, how could they

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>>1533906
Why does art from Late Antiquity look so shitty compared to the early Classical era? It's really apparent when you compare coinage as well.

>>1533906

Its quite possible he had gem or glass eyes. However, most ancient sculptures lack them because of looters.

>>1533929
christians

>>1533929
combination of lack of resources/funds for the best stuff as they started losing territories and tax bases and had less ability to focus on fine arts post-crisis of the third century and weird idealizing by christians i would assume

it really devolves under the byzantines

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i mean just look at this garbage. did an elephant-station hybrid become emperor or something?

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>>1533937
even discounting the missing eyeballs, the sculpture of the eyes themselves just looks absurd. they're bulging out and abnormally simplistic. im thinking this may even just be a specific choice since everything else looks realistic.

you get a lot of this weird cartoony style