Thanks for the information. I've always found Roman and Hellenistic art really fascinatingHmm, but it was commissioned after Julius Caesar's death, yes? So it can't be completely accurate if the model was dead at the time, right?
Yes. If it was commissioned following his death then it's likely that it wasn't entirely accurate. It would be based on memory, assuming the artist ever met or saw Julius Caesar, or it would be based off of previous works depicting JC, including statues, coinage, friezes and frescoes. So, any errors that a previous artist may have made would be repeated and even expanded upon in this. Chances are that you'd be able to recognise it as JC, but it might not be as close to a mirror image as you'd like.
The detailing might also have been radically different at the time, as it may have been painted, which was very very common with statuary, particularly Republican art.
Augustus in his aim for piety however did try to promote plain marble statues, but even he had colour too, so it's difficult to know how it originally looked. Were it remarkably blunt it may have had liver spots and veins and scars painted on it.
If I knew the particular statue I could probably say more, but I dont and can't search for it just yet.
Either way the similarity to Vladimir Putin is interesting, but purely coincidental, and not unexpected when the two men were/are fairly lean and skinny aged balding men of European descent.
And considering population sizes throughout history, chances are every European, and likely American too, is related in some distant way to Caesar. Similarities are bound to arise in every generation. Human appearances are varied, but there are only so many ways they can vary.
The entire point about cloning is obviously ridiculous, to the point where you actually seem stupid to even bother questioning it, but just for the sake of it, how on earth do you explain the survival of clonable DNA of a man who died 2057 years ago? This isn't Jurassic Park. You can't find Roman DNA in mosquitoes stored in amber.
how come all of your posts are loving colossal
I like to put all my thoughts into one post, so it's all coherent, or as coherent as I can write it down. And I get nervous about what I say. If I'm going to post then I commit to the post.
Probably about 50% of the posts I contemplate posting I end up scrapping at the last moment and don't post for fear it'll all be taken the wrong way or doesn't make sense.
But if it's a topic I enjoy, like classics, science, religion, nationality and debate, then I get excited to share my thoughts, opinions and what I know. And I like hearing the thoughts of other people passionate about those things too, even If I don't agree with them.
