Ever since I was a child, I have been fascinated by historical facts and archaeology. I think humans perceive the past as a series of events; something like a movie that we can’t really feel or touch. I believe the things that bring us closer to the past are those that truly humanize us - the bodies from Pompeii, the perfectly preserved Inca mummies, the personal objects of long-gone historical figures, and more.
I’ve always thought how incredible it would be to see historical events and the famous people the way they actually happened and the way they actually looked. I started Royalty Now in February of 2019, simply as a way for me to see my favorite historical figure, Anne Boleyn, as a woman of modern times. I wanted to know if she could come to life from the few pale, flat portraits we have of her. I started the account to satisfy my own curiosity about what those interesting people of the past would look like if they were standing right in front of me. I’m incredibly thankful for the support and interest the account has received, and can’t wait to see what happens next with other historical people.
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Nefertiti
"This bust of Nefertiti (believed to have been sculpted during her lifetime) is famous for its grace and beauty. Nefertiti lived from approximately 1370 - 1330 BC. She was an Egyptian queen and the wife of Akhenaten, an Egyptian Pharaoh. Akhenaten is famous for his attempt to transition Egypt into a monotheistic society (worshipping only the sun god, Aten), instead of a polytheistic one."
Julius Ceasar
Queen Elizabeth I
Alexander The Great
"I did some research on his looks and it is recorded that he had curly golden hair and heterochromia (one eye blue and one eye brown or a combo of both), so he was definitely a striking figure."
Agrippina The Younger
"Agrippina the Younger is someone I only recently learned more about but she had a crazy life. She was the sister of Emperor Caligula and the mother of Emperor Nero. I highly recommend giving her a search if you’re interested in that era of Roman history!"
Jane Austen
Anne Boleyn
Mary, Queen Of Scots
Love that you can see the resemblence between Mary and her cousin Elizabeth I!
Madame De Pompadour
"Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, better known as Madame de Pompadour. She first caught the eye of Louis XV at a masked ball in 1745 (it was said that she was dressed as a domino, and he was dressed as a plant) and was his chief mistress thereafter until 1751. Even after she was no longer Louis' mistress, she was a trusted friend, confidante, and advisor, essentially becoming one of the most powerful women at the French court until her death in 1764."
Empress Elisabeth Of Austria
"During her life, Elisabeth (known as Sisi), was known for being beautiful, smart, rebellious and passionate. Definitely worth some digging into if you are interested in late 1800s Europe."
Louis XIV, The Sun King
Katherine Of Aragon
"This portrait of Katherine of Aragon, wife of King Henry VIII and Queen of England from 1509-1533, has always been my favorite. There are several portraits of her that all range in looks, so it’s hard to tell her true likeness. I think this one captures her piety, meekness, and obedience as documented by historians."
Louis XV
"Louis XV is lesser known than his predecessor the Sun King and his heir, Louis XVI, but he was the second-longest reigning monarch in French history. I have always known him by his famous mistresses, Madame De Pompadour and Madame du Barry."
Catherine Parr
"She was the only wife to outlive the king, who was tyrannical in his last years."
Anne of Cleves outlived him as well. She got the best deal: Henry VIII annulled the marriage within a year, gave her some nice properties, a title, and honorary membership to the family as "the King's Beloved Sister" (invitations to court without the hassle of being married to someone toxic).
Marie Antionette
The Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov
Queen Isabella Of Castile
"Queen Isabella of Castile, partner to Ferdinand II of Aragon and the queen who sent Columbus on his way to the “new world” in 1492. "
Emperor Augustus
"Emperor Augustus (born Octavius, the great-nephew of Julius Caesar) was the first emperor of Rome, ending 500 years of republic. He’s an incredibly controversial figure, especially due to the smart and ruthless way he came to power, but he ruled over a time of relative peace in the Roman empire."
Abraham Lincoln
"Abe Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the U.S. economy."
Christina Of Denmark
"Christina of Denmark, seen here in an original Hans Holbein portrait, lived from 1521 - 1590. Christina was considered as a possible bride for King Henry VIII of England. Christina was not fond of the English King's reputation, given that he had divorced his first wife and beheaded his second wife. The originator of one of the greatest quotes about King Henry in history, Christina famously said: "If I had two heads, one should be at the King of England's disposal." What an amazing denial to a marriage proposal."
Katherine Howard
"Katherine Howard (c. 1523 – 13 February 1542) was Queen of England for only 16 months as the fifth wife of Henry VIII. Katherine was actually the cousin of Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn. When they married, he was 49 and she only 16 or 17. Katherine was accused of adultery and executed by the King, ending her short reign as the Queen of England."
Eleanor Of Toledo
"Eleanor of Toledo was an astonishing woman. Originally from Toledo, Spain, she was a bride to a famous member of the Medici Family, Cosimo I de Medici. Her husband regularly consulted with her on matters of politics, and she even served as consort during his time away from Florence."
Madame Du Barry
"This is Madame du Barry - the official mistress of Louis XV after his first love, Madame de Pompadour’s death."
Caligula
"Caligula, infamous brat and Roman Emperor."
You could have just postet a picture of Jack Gleeson (Joffrey Baratheon in Game of Thrones). They look pretty much alike.
Napoleon
"Did you know that Napoleon was most likely 5'7"? That's taller than King Louis XIV. Some say his perceived smaller stature was due to him looking small in comparison to his huge accomplishments. Others say there was an error when translating his true height from French to English. Who do you think he looks like here?"
Benjamin Franklin
Henry VIII
King Henry VII
"Here we are with Henry VII, the first tudor monarch, a frequent request from you all. Henry was the last king of England to attain the throne in battle after defeating Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485."
Thank God for Princess Di and Kate Middleton. Inbreeding leads to so much ugliness. 😁
Mona Lisa
Close, but if I met the likeness, I'm not sure the first thing I would think of is Mona Lisa. The shape of the face is not quite right and her expression lacks the subtlety of the original.
Grace Kelly
"Grace Kelly, American film actress and Princess of Monaco."
Look, she doesn't need you to "improve" her look. She was, and still is stunning.
It's not about improving? It's about modernizing. What would they look like today?
Load More Replies...yeah. I agree. Grace wasn't...and isn't ancient history...more recent history.
Grace was '50s modern. There's a certain 'datedness' to her. I don't see why she was included, though; she's too close to modern.
Load More Replies...Apparently this artist doesn’t find full faces to be beautiful, considering the fact that they took round and fuller faces that have nothing wrong with them and look beautiful and youthful... into thinner and more chiseled faces.
The modernized version doesn't even look like the young Grace Kelly.
OK, Grace Kelly would not be caught dead in that cheap hairdo, accessories and lace nonsense. Let's be real.
in addition to a few tiny and barely noticeable photoshoppings, you have completely changed the shape of her chin, cheek and hair line and lengthened her neck - the very attributes which created her particular and very recognisable beauty are no longer there. Your version is completely unrecognisable as Grace Kelly.
Why? There are plenty of beautiful pictures from her. Why improving??? 🤔
I felt so at first until I realized Becca Saladin and Vėjūnė Rimašiūtė worked hard to give us a 21st Century view of many of our faves. I think they had lots of fun, frustration, gave into just pure hard work. I commend them. As an artist they gave me some entertainment for a little while.
I miss old Hollywood when stars were natural beauty's, men were rugged, tough, masculine, and American Patriots that put their country first, career second, and most of them stayed married for the long run. This beauty is timeless, Grace Kelly, who became Queen of Monaco. The era of gorgeous women who didn't paint their faces an inch thick, were real ladies, yet could compete with any man who tried to get in their way without using every curse word in the book trying to prove they are the new liberated woman. Liz Taylor was also a beauty from this era, and many more. Grace Kelly was absolutely beautiful
They were managed down to the amount of time they spent in the bedroom by their film studios, and they didn't DARE divorce; they'd lose their contracts. As far as the makeup went, since you never saw a picture of them without it (it wasn't allowed) you'd never know. Most of them were chain smokers; you never saw pictures of that, either. You never saw pictures of them drunk, or fighting, or even driving a car. All photo shoots were organized by the studios, even the 'spontaneous' ones. The paperazzi haunted the police radios, hoping to get the scandalous photos that had a paper trail backup. It's what the people of the time wanted. They WANTED the fairy-tale movie stars. (Unless, of course, there was murder involved, which was more interesting.) But things like adultery, drunk driving, etc got pushed under a rug, and just didn't exist to the public.
Load More Replies...This one is silly. The true photo is timeless, classy and elegant. The “modern” clothing and hair is a disservice. First: do no harm (when doing anything is a mistake).
No even close. Watch Grace Kelly in High Society, and you'll see that this rare beauty had a face that the camera loved at ANY angle. Her captivating beauty, and then she opened her mouth, spoke and the heavens aligned. This rare occurrence cannot be compared.
You cannot improve on this beautiful and gracious lady's looks! She is one of a kind.
I grew up loving Grace Kelly! Always Loved her 1950s waves. Her hair was so shiny in real life. Love her movies!
If he were blonde, Caligula would strongly resemble Joffrey from Game of Thrones. Rather fitting.
her hairstyle is PERFECT, as is her hair colour, that auburn blonde. I wish women still styled their hair in this classic forties-fifties style. i like the waves. she is for sure along with ingrid bergman the most beautiful blonde ever.
god i love her grace kelly's hairstyle. i wish women still styled their hair like this, with lots of wavyness.They have their hair too flat nowadays.
We're giving 'em all the benefit of the doubt in surmising Napoleon, Mona Lisa, et al would have somehow shed their double-chins. In today's day and age, likelier the opposite. Re-do this series and add 30-40 lbs to each person. THAT would be interesting. Having said that, Catherine Parr? Wow...!
This one is kind of creepy - you're making her look much younger in the second pic. It's not an improvement
All are very good with the exception of Mona Lisa, which is terrible!
Why the need, again! She was a modern woman and quite beautiful. There is no need, to "recreate" her!
Totally wrong. Today they all look nothing like their former selves. Those that are not dust are mere skeletons of themselves.
Actually, if you had showed me the "after" picture I would never have guessed if was of Grace Kelly. A relative maybe, but not Grace herself.
Classic gorgeousness...but pic on right could be Nicole Kidman
Whether it is her photo of original or the modernized one, she is much prettier than all of her offsprings.
I feel like you’re right. Caligula, Lincoln and Augustus looked like and would still look like total nerds. Augustus had great floppy ears and a wider face. It would have been more interesting to see them in regular clothes, that way we can really know what they would have looked like as people. But despite saying all of that, it’s still good work!
We really don't need to "imagine" what Grace Kelly looked like, as there are thousands of photos of her, unlike the previous figures, most of whom we have only portraits or sculptures.
The new "portrait" was not needed. Maybe photoshopping a hairstyle but that's it.
She's lost like two inches off the width of her neck. She didn't need to be slimmed down.
Hmm. I would have guessed that the modern style would have a pixie hair cut
She was and still is a timeless beauty. Absolutely nothing can change her grace and beauty!
Grace Kelly was beautiful! She would have aged gracefully. They should have aged her NOT defined her by another look.
Grace Kelly was beautiful. She would have aged gracefully...they should have aged her not define her as a different person!
You have made her faace slimmer than the original, mouth and eyes perfect though
Why would you do this one? Plenty of photos of Princess Grace. BTW the forehead slope is wrong on this one too.
A fascinating concept- people leap off the page. [Although Queen Elizabeth 1 probably had a widow's peak and a lower headline - royal ladies shaved their foreheads to have a bigger forehead, and she had fuller lips than you allow her]. Anne Boleyn had much darker eyes than you give her- she was spoken of as having 'black' eyes... Jane Austen had darker, curly hair. Mary Wueen of Scots had much curlier, frizzy hair and much darker eyes, judging by her portraits]. But these are quibbles- it is a fascinating insight into how famous people really looked. I really enjoyed seeing them. Did you realise that you could run a business sideline turning current photographs into historic art- so people can see themselves as Queen Elizabeth 1, or any famous portrait, just by reversing your process? Such a clever and worthwhile idea!
This is fun but it doesn't take into account that styles of art predominated through certain eras...faces of royalty in particular were painted *certain ways* with very little deviation.
There are plenty of pictures of her as a child so this really doesn’t belong with this group.
STUNNING always! Always thought it quite sad her daughter did not inherit her classic fair beauty!
Wow, she looks exactly like she does in the modern color photograph on the left.
Who else was here looking for Cleopatra and got disappointed?
There are no accurate portrayals of Cleopatra. The Roman version is either from an infatuated lover, or a suspicious Roman populace. The one coin image had her looking like a fat hag. In short, nobody knows.
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Anne Of Cleves
"Another of Henry VIII's wives (arguably the luckiest of the six), this portrait really shows the beauty of Anne of Cleves. The reputation she earned after being rejected by the King was completely unearned in my opinion."
Prince Albert
"Prince Albert, shown here at age 21 and painted by John Partridge in 1840. Albert was the Prince Consort to Queen Victoria for 22 years, resulting in 9 children and a massive dynasty that would eventually extend to many of the royal houses in Europe."
Ingrid Bergman
"Not exactly royalty....but definitely Hollywood royalty. Academy award-winning actress Ingrid Bergman."
Just take a photo of Izabella Rossellino, het daughter, it looks exact like the photo on the right.
Jane Seymour
"Jane Seymour was the third wife of Henry VIII, and the only one to give him a living son and heir."
Wallis Simpson
"Wallis Simpson was the American socialite and divorcée at the heart of the Abdication Crisis that caused King Edward VIII to give up the throne. This unlikely turn of events is the reason Queen Elizabeth II rules today, as her father (George VI) stepped in to take Edward’s place as king."
Young Queen Victoria
Julie Andrews
"Julie Andrews is a Hollywood ICON and star of one of my favorites, the Sound of Music."
Elizabeth Taylor
I don't what to sound like an a*s but somebody is using this site to practice their photoshop skills and they are not doing a great job.
You don't sound like an a*s. These are simply terrible.
Load More Replies...It kinda looks like that face-swapping app and it's very badly executed ☹️
Unfortunately most of these would not be accurate. Most sculptures and paintings drastically altered how the individuals looked, in most cases to make them look better, because they had abnormalities due to incest, scars, etc or they weren't very attractive. Unless you took the bones of the individual and recreated their facial structure, that is the only way to really know, and even that isn't totally accurate.
Exactly. And there’s been no allowance made for the many “improvements” the artists imposed on their portraits which were simply “fashionable” at the time - like all the tiny rose-bud mouths, overly long noses and too-large eyes. Many of the facial proportions are stuffed up. Just popping a modern wig on an old portrait of dodgy veracity is plainly ridiculous. I was hoping to see some accurate forensic reconstructions based on the skulls or even death masks of the subjects.
Load More Replies...Overall I am not pleased with these. The artist took liberties that she shouldn't have done. Giving them a slimmer face, slimmer neckline and elongating their faces makes them look cartoonish in quite a few of the recreations. To bring them more "up-to-date", changing their clothing and hairstyles should have been the only changes made to each of them.
I didn't want to be negative which is why my original comment was "..." but most people have said what I was going to say anyway.
These looked like real people in the paintings, but the edited versions are seriously uncanny valley.
I agree. The angle of the painting/sculpture faces don't always match the photo they're put into, either.
Load More Replies...A lot of the face shapes changed a lot, and there was too much straightening of the hair, a lot of which would have still been pretty tight after even modern straightening.
Although tight ringlets was the fashion of the time. Many had straight hair naturally.
Load More Replies...I'm getting that women should not have curly hair vibe from this collection...
Pretty neat! Hope to see what Jesus, Emperor Qin or Genghis Khan might look like today.
I was crestfallen when I dropped my toothpaste.
Load More Replies...Don’t take this offensive but these don’t look very realistic, photoshop skills need to be a little more practiced. Pretty much what Giovanni said.
Am I the only one who tried to figure out who the faces were photoshopped on to? 😂😂😂
It would have been better not to use live body shots with drawn faces. It just looks so weird and artificial. I stopped looking after the first dozen.
I believe this was a great job, regardless of the images being accurate or not, photoshop practice or not... It was just simply interesting to see how these characters from history would look like if they had been our contemporaries, I would actually love to see more like this...
Most of these all just look like you slapped the painting/sculpture's face onto a random person. I don't want to be rude but I think this could've been done way better. I would've liked to look at one of these and think: 'Hey, that looks real, like I could actually see them looking like that.' sadly that's not the case.
Nice, too bad they're all European or European origin. Why not some reconstructions of Buddha, Shah Jehan (contemporary of queeen Elizabeth, built the Taj Mahal) or Omar Khayyam?
Do we have verified portraits of them? I think that was the deciding factor...
Load More Replies...It's fun. Who cares if it's accurate? I would think that today, many men would be sporting mustaches, stubble, goatees, or beards, though.
That portrait is no more Katherine Parr than I am. The portrait is another of Elizabeth 1st.
Alright, yes, the photoshopping isin't "on point" and everything. But this person still tried, please try and cool this hate. I would like to see all of us do better. 😭
Jeesh it's annoying reading comment sections any more. Everyone acts like they have every answer to every question NEVER asked. Guess what? NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU THINK . Not to mention the majority of comments in most comment sections are usually negative in regards to perceived errors and what "should have" been done. If people would just pull their heads out of their own a$$e$ and actually learn something or count to 10 and try to understand what you're reading before making assumptions in the form of directive opinions passed of as psuedo factual. YES YOU!
Look why don't all of you who don't like these try to do them yourself and publish them here. I would love to see the results!!
I think it’s clever. I didn’t expect historical accuracy; you’d need a skull for that and an expensive scientific process. But as the author wrote of Catherine of Aragon, there are many depictions of these historical figures. It’s clever and interesting to take a portrait and put it in a modern context. It really changes the appearance, even though you can match up the face to the old portrait, feature to feature.
nice to see that someone´s interested in history and archaeology, but let me tell you, that history is definitely not perceived as a series of events by historians, neither as a character´s story arcs.. Well done though
I love these and this overall concept. My only real gripe is that all of the women have long, flowing hair, whereas many if not most modern women in our culturehave short hair of some kind. (As some-one who personally has long flowing hair, it gets commented on a lot be-cause many people just don't see that so often these days ) I'd love to see more modern haircuts on some of these historical women.
So.. Putting painted faces on real peoples bodies using photoshop, counts as headline news these days? Well, do I have some news for you then! I got loads of news!
So putting a drawings face on a real persons body, using photoshop, is frontpage news these days? Well, do I have some news for you then!
I actually enjoyed flicking through them. Sometimes I thought they could have got it better, but mostly it is a fascinating insight. Thank you.
im sorry but my weeb a*s gotta do this. CAESAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!!!!
Nefertiti could not have been Black sub-Sahara African. There was not a Black African population in Egypt. She might have come from the areas known today as Iran, Turkey, etc., but not sub-Sahara Africa. https://www.yahoo.com/news/whos-mummy-genetic-secrets-ancient-egypt-unwrapped-192854972.html
Unless there was Kush in the gene pool. There were black Pharoahs...
Load More Replies...Fine arts, that's something good to spend time with historical facts. Thankyou for the read.
I mean would have been nice to see some people of color.... 😩 diversity made up our past and all we get is whitewashed garbage?
There was no diversity in Medieval Europe. This batch is all from then (except for Grace Kelly.)
Load More Replies...Brilliant -but mostly the faces have been narrowed and elongated, loved them though.
These can't be taken at face value - in Greek & Roman days, sculptures were all very similar, later on, the same happened with painting, there was a style for each era, especially in the 1400's & 1500's. Only much later a more naturalistic style developed. Most of Holbein's models looked similar, also Rembrandt, Vermeer, etc.
Incorrect. Both Julius Caesar and Caligula were well known for their blond hair. Dark hair was extremely rare in the Italian Pennisula before the Moorish occupation.
These pics are either of people that few of us have heard of, or just shoved today's clothes on an old painting. Pointless
If you didn't know at least 70% of them, you've got some serious catching up to do
Load More Replies...Lighten up, geez! It was fun. Photoshop is here to stay, hate it or not. 🙄
We like photoshop but they don't know how to use it.
Load More Replies...Paintings NEVER truly looked like the actual individual...so unfortunately... someone's time was greatly wasted on Photoshop
Most of the royals pictured all looked a little downsy on the eyes. I guess that can be expected when ya have uncle/brothers and such. Spent to much time in the shallow end of the gene pool. If it werent for the occasional butler or servant knocking up one of them the gene pool would have dried up into some real hills have eyes kind of sh@t.
Nefertiti and Caesar were great.. and then it kind of went downhill from there.
Some of these are very poor...while most are passable. Nothing exceptional to view.
Nearly all the men (and some of the women) have got large noses. Maybe we'd have more too if it weren't for plastic surgery?
I don't what to sound like an a*s but somebody is using this site to practice their photoshop skills and they are not doing a great job.
You don't sound like an a*s. These are simply terrible.
Load More Replies...It kinda looks like that face-swapping app and it's very badly executed ☹️
Unfortunately most of these would not be accurate. Most sculptures and paintings drastically altered how the individuals looked, in most cases to make them look better, because they had abnormalities due to incest, scars, etc or they weren't very attractive. Unless you took the bones of the individual and recreated their facial structure, that is the only way to really know, and even that isn't totally accurate.
Exactly. And there’s been no allowance made for the many “improvements” the artists imposed on their portraits which were simply “fashionable” at the time - like all the tiny rose-bud mouths, overly long noses and too-large eyes. Many of the facial proportions are stuffed up. Just popping a modern wig on an old portrait of dodgy veracity is plainly ridiculous. I was hoping to see some accurate forensic reconstructions based on the skulls or even death masks of the subjects.
Load More Replies...Overall I am not pleased with these. The artist took liberties that she shouldn't have done. Giving them a slimmer face, slimmer neckline and elongating their faces makes them look cartoonish in quite a few of the recreations. To bring them more "up-to-date", changing their clothing and hairstyles should have been the only changes made to each of them.
I didn't want to be negative which is why my original comment was "..." but most people have said what I was going to say anyway.
These looked like real people in the paintings, but the edited versions are seriously uncanny valley.
I agree. The angle of the painting/sculpture faces don't always match the photo they're put into, either.
Load More Replies...A lot of the face shapes changed a lot, and there was too much straightening of the hair, a lot of which would have still been pretty tight after even modern straightening.
Although tight ringlets was the fashion of the time. Many had straight hair naturally.
Load More Replies...I'm getting that women should not have curly hair vibe from this collection...
Pretty neat! Hope to see what Jesus, Emperor Qin or Genghis Khan might look like today.
I was crestfallen when I dropped my toothpaste.
Load More Replies...Don’t take this offensive but these don’t look very realistic, photoshop skills need to be a little more practiced. Pretty much what Giovanni said.
Am I the only one who tried to figure out who the faces were photoshopped on to? 😂😂😂
It would have been better not to use live body shots with drawn faces. It just looks so weird and artificial. I stopped looking after the first dozen.
I believe this was a great job, regardless of the images being accurate or not, photoshop practice or not... It was just simply interesting to see how these characters from history would look like if they had been our contemporaries, I would actually love to see more like this...
Most of these all just look like you slapped the painting/sculpture's face onto a random person. I don't want to be rude but I think this could've been done way better. I would've liked to look at one of these and think: 'Hey, that looks real, like I could actually see them looking like that.' sadly that's not the case.
Nice, too bad they're all European or European origin. Why not some reconstructions of Buddha, Shah Jehan (contemporary of queeen Elizabeth, built the Taj Mahal) or Omar Khayyam?
Do we have verified portraits of them? I think that was the deciding factor...
Load More Replies...It's fun. Who cares if it's accurate? I would think that today, many men would be sporting mustaches, stubble, goatees, or beards, though.
That portrait is no more Katherine Parr than I am. The portrait is another of Elizabeth 1st.
Alright, yes, the photoshopping isin't "on point" and everything. But this person still tried, please try and cool this hate. I would like to see all of us do better. 😭
Jeesh it's annoying reading comment sections any more. Everyone acts like they have every answer to every question NEVER asked. Guess what? NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU THINK . Not to mention the majority of comments in most comment sections are usually negative in regards to perceived errors and what "should have" been done. If people would just pull their heads out of their own a$$e$ and actually learn something or count to 10 and try to understand what you're reading before making assumptions in the form of directive opinions passed of as psuedo factual. YES YOU!
Look why don't all of you who don't like these try to do them yourself and publish them here. I would love to see the results!!
I think it’s clever. I didn’t expect historical accuracy; you’d need a skull for that and an expensive scientific process. But as the author wrote of Catherine of Aragon, there are many depictions of these historical figures. It’s clever and interesting to take a portrait and put it in a modern context. It really changes the appearance, even though you can match up the face to the old portrait, feature to feature.
nice to see that someone´s interested in history and archaeology, but let me tell you, that history is definitely not perceived as a series of events by historians, neither as a character´s story arcs.. Well done though
I love these and this overall concept. My only real gripe is that all of the women have long, flowing hair, whereas many if not most modern women in our culturehave short hair of some kind. (As some-one who personally has long flowing hair, it gets commented on a lot be-cause many people just don't see that so often these days ) I'd love to see more modern haircuts on some of these historical women.
So.. Putting painted faces on real peoples bodies using photoshop, counts as headline news these days? Well, do I have some news for you then! I got loads of news!
So putting a drawings face on a real persons body, using photoshop, is frontpage news these days? Well, do I have some news for you then!
I actually enjoyed flicking through them. Sometimes I thought they could have got it better, but mostly it is a fascinating insight. Thank you.
im sorry but my weeb a*s gotta do this. CAESAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!!!!
Nefertiti could not have been Black sub-Sahara African. There was not a Black African population in Egypt. She might have come from the areas known today as Iran, Turkey, etc., but not sub-Sahara Africa. https://www.yahoo.com/news/whos-mummy-genetic-secrets-ancient-egypt-unwrapped-192854972.html
Unless there was Kush in the gene pool. There were black Pharoahs...
Load More Replies...Fine arts, that's something good to spend time with historical facts. Thankyou for the read.
I mean would have been nice to see some people of color.... 😩 diversity made up our past and all we get is whitewashed garbage?
There was no diversity in Medieval Europe. This batch is all from then (except for Grace Kelly.)
Load More Replies...Brilliant -but mostly the faces have been narrowed and elongated, loved them though.
These can't be taken at face value - in Greek & Roman days, sculptures were all very similar, later on, the same happened with painting, there was a style for each era, especially in the 1400's & 1500's. Only much later a more naturalistic style developed. Most of Holbein's models looked similar, also Rembrandt, Vermeer, etc.
Incorrect. Both Julius Caesar and Caligula were well known for their blond hair. Dark hair was extremely rare in the Italian Pennisula before the Moorish occupation.
These pics are either of people that few of us have heard of, or just shoved today's clothes on an old painting. Pointless
If you didn't know at least 70% of them, you've got some serious catching up to do
Load More Replies...Lighten up, geez! It was fun. Photoshop is here to stay, hate it or not. 🙄
We like photoshop but they don't know how to use it.
Load More Replies...Paintings NEVER truly looked like the actual individual...so unfortunately... someone's time was greatly wasted on Photoshop
Most of the royals pictured all looked a little downsy on the eyes. I guess that can be expected when ya have uncle/brothers and such. Spent to much time in the shallow end of the gene pool. If it werent for the occasional butler or servant knocking up one of them the gene pool would have dried up into some real hills have eyes kind of sh@t.
Nefertiti and Caesar were great.. and then it kind of went downhill from there.
Some of these are very poor...while most are passable. Nothing exceptional to view.
Nearly all the men (and some of the women) have got large noses. Maybe we'd have more too if it weren't for plastic surgery?