Post your favourite Roman artwork

>>2999392
You're 100% completely WRONG. Its a Roman copy of a Greek work, not a view into the psyche of a Roman in 220BC. If the Romans gave a fuck about "Gauls" or "Barbarians" they wouldn't have shit on them every change they got and they wouldn't have thrown Ceasar a parade and made him emperor for slaughtering hundreds of thousands of them.

>>2999432
> be caesar
> think you will fall off earth if you sail to britain
> write about slaughtering gauls
> 2000 years later people still think you did it
> without evidence

it was this kind of genocidal retardation and pandering to the hatred of the masses that caused a civilisation to fall as repeated people tried to follow in his fictional footsteps and got raped by barbarians

>>2999392
>Those shitty spiky hair
Its Germanic alright

>>2999473
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2015/12/dutch-archaeologists-find-proof-of-julius-caesar-led-massacre-in-the-netherlands/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/11/julius-caesar-battlefield-unearthed-southern-netherlands-dutch-archaeologists
>be you
>be retard
>write retarded post

>>2999491
> believing shit in the Guardian or any newspaper

>>2999432
t.Dumnorix
Go to bed Gallic-fucking-shit

>>2999527
(((FAKE NEWS)))
>any source that I don't personally approve of is just wrong!
you're pathetic

>>2999480

You dumb coon. Read a book and maybe next time you'll make less of an idiot of yourself. I doubt it tho, since you're a fucking moron.

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>>2999392

nothing beats roman realism.

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>>2999744
>>2999392

can you imagine what they would look like colored with paint and wax like this?

>>2999744
What caused the transition between that style of art and the idealised style used by Augustus and his successors? Was it just to display the emperor as powerful?

>>2999534
I never said I gave a fuck about the gauls
still though, that doesn't change the fact that its a copy of a Greek original

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>>2999779
Roman portraiture didn't disappear when the emperors started shitting out idealized propaganda statues. Emperors simply started to adopt greek idealized styles for their public pieces, while busts (which were actually meant as portraits) kept realistic styles until the late 3rd century, when a simpler and angular style took over. The reason for the change is still heavily debated, but given the timing it's likely the 3rd century pestilences simply caused the loss of technical knowledge.

I mean look up a few examples. You can't possibly tell me that Nero's bust is idealized. Or Vespasian's, Galba's, Decius's.
Pic related is late 1st century, hardly an Apollo.

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>implying the best period of Roman portraiture isn't the weird super stylised later stuff

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>romans
>not just shitty copies of patrician greek masterpieces

>>2999852
Thanks for the insight. Could you recommend any reading material that would go in depth about this topic?

>>2999939
https://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Rome-Christian-Triumph-100-450/dp/0192842013
https://www.amazon.com/Antique-Medieval-Mediterranean-Blackwell-Anthologies/dp/140512072X

>>2999953
Thank you. The way emperors such as Augustus used art to influence public perception has always been a fascinating topic for me, people like you make /his/ a better place t b h.

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>>2999897

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>>2999802
Fucking damnit I came here to post this

>>2999897
Can I get a quick rundown?