Were marble busts necessary? They kinda look creepy

Were marble busts necessary? They kinda look creepy.

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You think that's creepy? Just wait till you get to the 5th century busts.

Maybe he really looked like that.

Its not much less creepy in clay

No!

I wonder if the Romans and Greeks were shitty at painting their statues. Medieval and Renaissance folks actually managed to paint their sculptures quite nicely.

I cannot be laughing this hard at work.

Oh shit that's crazy good.

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An often underrated art form.

People like fancy ass white marble of the Renaissance (which unlike Greek and Roman sculptures was left unpainted). Polychrome terracotta isn't as sexy.

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This guy got the Mussolini look

Shame this lady decided to become a nun.

It looks kitsch. Like a little figurine a Calabrian nonna would have of St Bartholomew or something.

Me want some fun but she don't want nun.

The time period was all about kitchy bling anyways.

SHAMEFUR DISPRAY

>using the word kitsch unironically
Frankfurt school pls go

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Looks like Putin

I've seen most of these busts in person and black marble > white marble.

Found the original portrait.

Also holy shit, check quads.

Jesus, was Caesar really that ugly?

Are you literally 12 years old?

Well he had something going for him if Suetonius was right. Apparently he was quite a womanizer, besides that one time he got fucked in the ass.

I'm gonna need a quick rundown

Damn Caracalla looks like THAT?

I have a friend from El Salvador that looks exactly like him holyshit.

>Caesar bows to Eutropius
>in contact with the Gods
>rumoured to possess psychic abilities
>controls Rome with an iron fist
>owns fabricae and castrae all over the world
>direct descendant of the Capitoline Wolf
>will bankroll the first cities on Mars (Eutropolis will be the first city)
>owns basically every public bath on earth
>first designer babies will be Eutropius Enfantem
>said to have 200+ IQ
>ancient Etruscan scriptures tell of an angel who will descend upon the Earth and will bring an era of enlightenment and unprecedented technological progress with him
>This is Eutropius
>He owns Denarius mints all over the world
>You likely have Eutropii in your pocket right now
>Eutropius is in regular communication with the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, forwarding the word of God to the Latin Church
>he learned fluent Greek in a week
>Nation states entrust their gold reserves with Eutropius. There's no gold in Constantinopolis, only Eutropolis
>He is 67 years old, from the space-time reference point of the base human.
>In reality, he is a timeless being existing in all points of time and space from the big bang to the end of the universe
>Eutropius will guide humanity into a new age of wisdom, peace and love

So, is this a prop from Spitting Image?

That's an idealized portrayal of Caesar. The only surviving bust from his lifetime is pic related.

Go to bed kid.

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>buy expensive white marble for a statue
>paint over it

I don't buy it.

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Dank

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>Oblivion character creation.jpg

Nice, Luccullus has never looked better.

>Were marble busts necessary?

How else would you know what your king even looks like?
No cameras, no photos, paintings were very out of fashion.

Looks kind of albanian with that hammerhead.

>buy cheaper rock
>the statue chips and looks like shit

>buy darker marble
>can't paint lighter tones over it

Badly painted statues is a meme perpetuated by retarded museam staff who think finding a certain color of paint particles trapped in the statue means its a fucking paint by numbers kit that any incompetent can reproduce.

How do you even tell the difference between an Albanian and anyone else from that region if they're not wearing different clothes?

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>this thread
>all the painted marble statues are white people
fucking stormniggers I swear to God.

>dont paint it

>yellows from enviroment and people touching it, now it looks like piss.

The black ones with realistic eyes are even creepier

You're truly a Based individual.

Medieval/Renaissance polychromy is underrated as fuck.

WE

my nigga lookin like squidward

Off topic but:

I am continually confused by renaissance habit of depicting common people as looking asian. Did some happen in the 1400s? Were we qingz at some point?

It's just "tired" eyes, I see people who have them constantly (as a european).

Italians confirmed swarthy.

They just have thick eyelids.

Alternatively, they wuz CHANGS n Shit

>Marco Polo CAME from China

>tfw too smart to distrust brutus

Allegedly

u do know most are reproductions right

>implying his his just iron but not just

>implying his his i iron but not just

He looks like the Grinch

I appreciate the art behind painting them, but the marble is far more sublime for >muh glorious legacy

Painting them reminds me of Madam Tussauds wax figures.

This, during the height of Hellenistic and Roman art, people knew how to paint.

Here's a painting

However we cant trust that sculpture too much either, since it is low quality and presents some doubts about the artists ability to capture his true likeness.

>tfw no gf

The historical Eutropius was apparently a eunuch so maybe that's why he looks weird

kek

Good thread.

Well historically all of this marble shit was painted.

>all the shit taste itt
It's not ugly nor creepy, it's beautiful, you fucking plebs.

They look cool to me

thanks for enlightening me on this style user

Bashar assad?