Fascinating to see the realism of these portraits degrade toward the end of the empire....pic.twitter.com/wHOMHduxUQ
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This trend continued till the portraits were scarcely recognizable as humans. E.g this Merovingian coin.pic.twitter.com/MBSdxleAF9
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apart of "artistic style" is there any other explanation that's commonly stated? thinking of cheaper production / higher circulation count / survival bias (cheaper material) / etc ?
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6th century France was technically and economically very backward compared to Augustan Rome.
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Merovingians are not Romans
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A contemporary Trump might have said that, but in fact Franks were a significant component of the Roman army in the late Empire.
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Debasement and clumsy portraiture are correlated in the sense that political chaos tended to produce both. But I've seen decent portraits on 3 C. denarii that were practically all base metal, and clumsy ones on 6 C. solidi that were pure gold.
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Early surrealism?
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It has to be because of the volume.
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