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Artist Recreates What Roman Emperors Looked Like Using AI, Facial Reconstruction, And Photoshop (30 Pics)
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It is nice to let your imagination loose on your visits to museums packed with ancient sculptures depicting noble people and historic figures. In fact, you can go crazy letting your imagination loose fantasizing about what they actually looked like. History buffs can rejoice now as, thanks to modern technology and the skillful artist Haroun Bin, you can marvel at recreated Roman emperors from Augustus to Flavius Arcadius.
You can check out how incredibly realistic the emperors look, to the point of resembling well-known people, read what the artist had to share with Bored Panda about his project, and of course vote for your favourites and leave comments below.
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#1
Hadrian
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Augustus
Duncan Ash 5 years ago
Sometimes I forget that people have looked like people for most of civilization, so seeing someone from thousands of years ago looking like a just a person feels wierd
#3
Aurelian
#6
Commodus
#7
Lucius Verus
#8
Diocletian
#9
Constantine The Great
Andrew Gibb 5 years ago
the top left statue looks like a cartoon Rocky. Don't push me! Don't push me!
#10
Julian The Apostate
#13
Geta
#14
Gordian I
#15
Quintillius
#16
Claudius
#17
Didius Julianus
#18
Macrinus
#19
Tacitus
#20
Severus Alexander
#21
Tiberius
#22
Florianus
#23
Gordian II
#24
Nero
#25
Numerian
#26
Pertinax
#27
Constantius II
#28
Maximinus Thrax
#29
Licinius
Jean Veneziano 3 years ago
Their mouth is wrong. The lips are thinner than they should be, and there's no natural curve and plumpness to them. I'm very disappointed in that.
#30
Titus
#31
Septimus Severus
#33
Flavius Arcadius
#35
Elagabalus
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago (edited)
Again, the lips are wrong, Lower lip is more protruding and round. The chin is shorter and rounder, and I don't know what's going on with the nose, the left side seems to be shorter than the right. These things make a big difference in how the whole face is perceived.
#36
Galba
#41
Diadumenian
#42
Nerva
#44
Trajan
#48
Decius
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
This artist is obsessed with adding facial hair for no reason
#50
Herrenius Etruscus
#52
Vespasian
#53
Phillip The Arab
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
Look at the picture with the statue and the superimposed realistic picture. Nothing lines up. The shape of the nose is totally different. The upper lip is too full and the lower lip to square.
#54
Balbinus
#57
Domitian
#58
Gordian III
#59
Tetrabonus Gallus
#60
Constantius I
#62
Otho
#63
Volusianus
#64
Hostilian
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
Nose, eyebrow ridge, mouth shape and facial hair do not match.
#65
Maximinus II
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Grace Avalanche 5 years ago
This is so strange, these prominent figures in history look like someone you'd run into at the supermarket
Martin Kaine 5 years ago
As I understand it, the style for most of Roman history was realism, unlike the Greeks, who typically stylized their subjects (took out the pimples and wrinkles, and dropped them 20 pounds). Of course, the emperors from the late Empire were done by artists with less formal training or the aforementioned Greek artists (since the West fell into decline sooner). Google busts of Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla. That's probably what those guys looked like, and it wasn't pretty.
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Eunice Probert 5 years ago
I'd like to see this done with the statues of the wives of the emperors.
Ozacoter 5 years ago
That would be really nice. They had very intricate hair styles. I would love to see them.
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Saint KIM 5 years ago
Indeed pagans satisfying. They were. They are not. They are.
Load More Replies... Grace Avalanche 5 years ago
This is so strange, these prominent figures in history look like someone you'd run into at the supermarket
Martin Kaine 5 years ago
As I understand it, the style for most of Roman history was realism, unlike the Greeks, who typically stylized their subjects (took out the pimples and wrinkles, and dropped them 20 pounds). Of course, the emperors from the late Empire were done by artists with less formal training or the aforementioned Greek artists (since the West fell into decline sooner). Google busts of Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla. That's probably what those guys looked like, and it wasn't pretty.
Load More Replies... Eunice Probert 5 years ago
I'd like to see this done with the statues of the wives of the emperors.
Ozacoter 5 years ago
That would be really nice. They had very intricate hair styles. I would love to see them.
Load More Replies... Saint KIM 5 years ago
Indeed pagans satisfying. They were. They are not. They are.
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