And for the cases where we do know a little bit, the reconstruction does not follow primary sources in favor of facial symmetry, idealism, and strangely tan whiteness
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Replying to @arh279 @SarahEBond
So (non-art-historian here)... I think this is going entirely off of portrait busts. There’s a lot of extant description of Elagabalus, and very few portraits: the picture of him is pretty clearly just a colorization of the best surviving face.
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Except it doesn’t because the portrait of Septimus Severus is based on his portrait, which is in colour, and depicted him as white anyway. I compared the two, the face is the same but the skin colour isn’t. Regardless, it is dangerous no matter the source material.
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I don’t think the face is the same, to be honest: the nose is broader in the busts than it is in the Tondo, and it looked like it was following the busts. But the busts don’t have skin color and the Tondo does... (while also showing C. as much lighter than S, which this ignores)
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Dr C. M. Bromstick 🧹, Dublin Retweeted Lucy Parr says Free Palestine! 🇵🇸 ♠️
They look very similar to me https://twitter.com/defixionesss/status/1287943835209826304?s=21 …https://twitter.com/defixionesss/status/1287943835209826304 …
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I mean... they're the same person? But the Tondo Severus has much higher cheekbones and a narrower nose. Compare the Glyptotek bust:pic.twitter.com/sdrLbzqlvT
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But also we need to be clear that whatever standards of ideals were used for the busts, they were not veristic portrayals of individuals. To “reconstruct”them in this visual new visual form shows more of our cultural ideals than historical likeness
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Yeah this is a good example of how AI generated anything is not neutral.
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