It may be a worthwhile experiment to get a sculptor to do busts of living people, then reconstruct their unseen faces from these busts alone, and compare the results with the real thing. Just to see how accurate this method is.
@@annaclarafenyo8185 That was an interesting read. Thank you. History “buffs” tend to hijack the actual study of historical record for their own purposes, much as those Nazis did.
@@NotmyRealname847 I think Anna was just adding to the conversation by pointing out some errors reconstruction artists like the uploader make. For instance, making Augustus blonde. I would add that the “method” cannot be tested scientifically because this is an art and not a science. As a painter myself and friend and acquaintance of many fine portrait artists, I can tell you that a hundred different artists will each give you a hundred different renditions. The other major problem here is that like all portraiture through the ages (including selfies today), accuracy was not as important as flattery. Believe it or not, even wrinkles were added to make a subject look older and thus “wiser”. Augustus on the other hand made sure that he was depicted as younger and more fit than he actually was. When it comes to women, artists were even more likely to “outdo” reality. Two sculptures made 20 years apart might look like they were made around the same time because of how it was customary to depict the emperor. Many sculptures were based not on the live subject, even if the subject was still alive, but on other earlier sculptures the artist could use as a source. So in other words, the sculptures themselves probably aren’t all that accurate and even if the artist were trying their best to sculpt just as they saw it, they probably weren’t creating “from life” but rather copying another work. It’s all a game of marble telephone.
At Pompeii, they found preserved loaves of bread (burned on the outside, but intact), the remains of nuts and chicken bones in the thermopolia (hot food "restaurants" along the streets), and the remains of people and pet dogs in the houses, with hardened volcanic mud around them forming a perfect mold showing their appearance.
It was not some long ago. Maybe numbers seems to be big, but 2000 years is really nothing. I guess ancient people were very similar to us in aspect of casual life, relationship, personality etc.
@@Parismiami2012 Giaus Octavius Caesar Augustus was not a Emperor. At least not in his own lifetime and he refused the title on more than one occasion. It was not until after his death when they Julio-Claudians were attempting to establish legitimacy did they posthumously claim his dynasty to be Imperial
Definitely some similarities . I've seen busts of Caligula's father, Germanicus, and the resemblance is uncanny. For one who so much resembled his father, their personalities were nothing alike.
Yes, I’m sure the way they painted the statues was incredibly realistic, given how talented they were at created realistic statues. I would love to see a realistically painted Roman statue, created using the pigments at their disposal at the time. I have seen a couple that were painted, but they were painted by historians, not artists, and so weren’t painted very well.
zipzap570 Yeah, Rome would have been full of colour - not just white, like we see in paintings and Hollywood. Buildings, statues - everything would have been painted a myriad of colours. Our modern conception of the white Roman aesthetic is totally inaccurate, and actually dates back to the Enlightenment and Renaissance, when Roman art and architecture was deemed the epitome of beauty. Because all the paint had washed off the statues over the years, Renaissance and Enlightenment Europeans assumed the statues and architecture had always been white. This misconception inspired European art and architecture of the time, and has lasted to this day! Nevertheless, there were a couple people during the Enlightenment who got it right! We actually have an account by a guy from back in the 18th century, who claimed that the Roman statues must have been painted because he saw a fleck of paint on one of them. Sadly, none of his peers listened to him, and his claim wasn’t taken seriously until recently, even though he was right! These days, we can use modern technology to test for trace amounts of pigment residue left on the statues, and that’s how we’ve discovered that Roman statues and architecture were, in fact, painted! 😊
@@justanotherhappyhumanist8832 im picturing the artists seeing future historians paint them and how disappointed they must feel😂. Im glad this this video was done by an artist!
Esther Ahn Haha, I know, right? And all the comments I have seen on articles about it consist of people commenting about how ugly the painted statues are, and how the white statues were better! Those poor Roman artists lol - they must be turning in their graves, screaming, “No! We painted them much better than those historians are painting them!” 😂
You have to be impressed by the original sculptors' work. The skill they had then allows for current artists to do realistic recreations now. I'm also extremely impressed by the AI artists that did this work!
@@BR78973 I'm guessing because they don't put the irises and pupils of the eyes in the statues, so they're just blank. Don't know if that was an actual choice by the sculptors of the time, or if they painted the eyes in and the paint just wore off over the centuries.
@@Maerahn They were all very brightly coloured thousands of years ago, so the irises would've been painted on. You're right, the paint just wore off over the centuries. :)
This is litteraly the coolest thing to me. Just to think these people actually walked this planet so long ago and we can get a small glimpse to what they looked like. God i love history lol
To me it does not look like they exactly look like the looked in the staute, but its still pretty cool to see how they looked, but strange thing is that they all looked bit ugly and I dont think nobody nowdays have anymore left that kind lf strange faces these Roman people had in Roman empire. These all emperors in this video looked bit ugly with maybe expection being Augustus, that didnt look so ugly, when as man he still looked like child.
I am italian. Central Italian. Nero looks like my dad. And the majority of them look like someone I have met just by having a walk. Thats amazing. Thank you ❤️ 🇮🇹
I look like Caesar Augustus lol. Augustus might have had some Northman in him. I'm Norse/English. Augustus must have gotten it from his mother, clearly he doesn't look as Italian as the rest do.
@@francoisdaureville323 yeah and what makes you think that Augustus was Nordic when they brutally fought Germanic tribes? He's Alpine /Dinaric and some atlantid phenotype typical Roman skull feature which is not that different from todays modern Italians and other southern Europeans.
Interesting video but blonde hair, blue eyes and pale skin was introduced to Ancient Rome from relations with Germanic/Celtic tribes. Those traits are not innate Roman traits, if you want to know what the majority of Ancient Romans look like look at most Southern Italians with olive skin and dark hair. What I said is backed up by genetic testing and not just my opinion. And yes, I know Northern Italians look very much like this today. However, do a DNA test and you will see they are genetically mixed with Germanic and Celtic tribes.
@@GhostSal doesn t matter, like in ancient egypt blonde with blue eyes was special and so they though those people were gifted and this is why they became successful. This is not a video about the average roman it is a video about emperor and we all know some skin feature can raise you in rank pretty quick. TL/DR like today rich and powerful people in rome had lighter skin.
Things I noticed.... 1.People born 2000 years later complain that these don't look like a person that any of us have seen. TH-cam folk are chronic complainers. 2. Being a Cesar seems pretty hazardous to one's health. 3. This is incredible work!
Of all the emperors from 14 to 395 AD, 23 were assassinated, a further 8 were possibly assassinated, 9 were killed in battle, 5 died by suicide, 3 were executed, 1 died in captivity, 20 died of natural causes and 1 is unknown. Worst job ever.
@Joseph Norm It wasn't too uncommon in that era. Primitive medical care by modern standards combined with outbreaks of various diseases. Someone dying at 41 then isn't necessarily suspicious. Heck, it's even not always suspicious now. Heart disease or various cancers (not to mention Covid) sometimes cut peoples lives short. Sometimes people just catch an unlucky break with their health.
@Joseph Norm people didnt usually live past 40 until the 20th century. It still happened, but thats a very recent thing where it became common. That should also be common knowledge. Regardless of if they lived a healthy life or not, it was most likely still natural causes. If someone had a heart attack or stroke, that was it. Certain ailments you were born with will kill you without attention, even something as simple as a digestive tract issue. It may not seem that way to us any more, but literally everything that you have wrong with you would eventually kill you in previous times. Especially in that era. Romans may have been advanced but they couldnt give you a pacemaker nor were they sanitary enough to provide a long life span. Life was also hard, no such thing as electronics or convenience back then. They also spent their lives either fighting for glory or arguing for a living, which is very taxing hence why some of them, despite being real young, look very old. Things didnt get easy until around the 1800s, but even then it was still tough until the mid 1900s.
@Joseph Norm that is literally the reality dude. You cannot decide how our past went because you dont understand it. I did not say they age faster. That would be nonsense, what i said was their lifestyles took a toll on them which is why they looked "older" which is a nice way of saying they look like crap. I dont want to be rude but you have to be some kind of stupid if you didnt understand this in history, or havent ever noticed people in certain positions and of certain lives dont live longer. You cannot decide how facts and history are because you dont like them or they dont agree with your feelings. Either that, or your school skipped history class for communism 101. In which case, i pity you.
@@Saranda4787 just any person from history. Same can be said about the great warriors of ancient times. They often times looked more like your average guy then anything else. Like alexander the great, literally looked like simple young guy. Even tho he ran a massive empire for the short time he lived.
Truly beautiful.. a breathtaking spectacle. It’s possible to see all the minimal aspects, the genetics features that bind the Julio-Claudian dynasty’s members. My warmest congratulations to the digital artists who made this masterpiece.
I've always shared a interest in ancient Roman history and the Caesars. It's amazing seeing all these figures I've read so much about and watched so many documentaries come to life.
@@musashi542 from a fellow romance family member (Spanish) don’t do that to your country. The government isn’t the country or the people or the culture. Italy is a place that should be a human treasure. Amor y Paz desde España
@@DesertsOfHighfleet Y'all have to stop with this bullshit of Italians who are Germanic, the Germanics who settled in Italy were around 150,000 in a country of 14 million inhabitants so it is impossible, also genetic studies prove you wrong
I studied Latin and Roman History in high school and had an amazing teacher - she would have absolutely loved this video. After so many years of only seeing busts of these (mostly) great men - these animations bring them to life and they appear so human, rather then "god-like". Well done.
Why is no one appreciating the digital artists who have put a lot of work into this face modelling? Many of us don't have these skills. We could at least applaud the work they have done.
The reason is that the modelling is pushing a moronic 1933 style Germanic theory about how the ancient Roman emperors were blond. They weren't. Augustus had sandy brown hair, lighter than most, but not blond. This is an old Nietzschian talking point, which is completely false.
I do appreciate the efforts and the idea very much but, as I am a portrait and 3D artist myself, I have to say that the result of this work is very mediocre. Some fundamental features of most of these statues were badly miss-transposed. I am still impressed and very intrigued by his idea though.
This video is an international treasure which should be displayed in Roman Empire exhibits at museums throughout the world and certainly in school courses on the subject. Superb job! Congratulations.
It would be, if it didn't include the "German emperor" myth in the blond hair and blue eyes on Augustus. None of the emperors were remotely Germanic looking.
@@annaclarafenyo8185 Definitely- I'm honestly surprised the video makes them so pale, considering they were living on the Mediterranean- the video is really cool otherwise, though
@@caseyaugust1846 The problem is that this is a horrifically idiotic political stance. You don't know the cockamamie theory this idea is based on. The theory here is that a bunch of blond people conquered the whole world 6000 years ago, taking all the world as theirs, from Britain to Italy, leaving the "proto-Indo-European" language as the only mark that they existed. Then, later, other people began to dilute their blond-genes out of existence. There was indeed a group of proto-Indo-Europeans who spread tremendously far, because they were the first farmers. These people were NOT blond, they were Turkish, or someplace near there, central Asian. The idea that they were blond was used by racial theorists in the 19th century to justify German superiority over modern Italians. The modern Italians, the story went, weren't like the ancient Romans, their genes were diluted by migrants. Therefore, the ancient aristocracies of Rome were blond headed and blue eyed. This idea is explicitly expressed in Nietzsche, the main theorist of fascism. This idea is insane. It is contradicted by all archaeological evidence, and genetic evidence. Proto-Indo-European language group comes from central asia, blond hair comes from northern Europe, while blue eyes is a mutation that appeared around the same time as the invention of farming and horse-husbandry and Indo European expansion, and only a tiny number of people in northern Europe were blue eyed. This is not important at all, except for the ideology behind it.
@@ericwilliams-de6dx Don't exaggerate, the person who made this video likely made it in good faith without being aware of the history of this stuff. Don't blame him, he's a good graphic artist who got fooled by internet people. It's easy to get fooled, because genuinely the only people who care about Augustus's hair color are the morons who think the emperors were blonde.
@@annaclarafenyo8185 I totally agree- I thought it would have made far more sense for the photo-translations to more closely resemble Italians than the Germanic blond appearance the video creator went with- especially for Augustus
All the woke people complaining that they are too blonde don't realize plenty of modern Italians look like exactly this and that not all Italians are the Hollywood stereotype- many are indistinguishable from celto-germanics.
@@HistoryMovieCritic that’s not true… you’re wrong and there were blonde Italians, Augustus was blonde and many others. Italians got darker with time, not lighter, due to the Arab conquest of Sicily and the south of Italy.
@@MalleusIudaeorum Cite your source. I have never seen that anywhere. Augustus was of Roman and Iberian ancestry. That means he would have dark hair unless a little bit of Celto-Iberian got mixed in and he might have brown or slightly reddish hair. The Greeks and Phoenicians also settled Hispania and they had black hair. There were no Italians until modern times. Blonde hair was a strictly Nordic trait and did not appear until the Germanic tribes invaded.
@@stanislavasuplatovich2826 Maybe I should have said it like this.....”how many of y’all see one of these recreations and say ‘that guy looks like somebody I know?’l
@@farklefuster6876 But why should they look like somebody I/you don't know? They were human beings like you and me. Do you know that story about an ancient Egyptian statue of Kaaper, who was a member of the pharaoh family and a person of higher standing? When his statue was excavated, one of the Arab peasants who helped on the excavation site, exclaimed when seeing it, "Well, he looks like our headman of the village!" And the nickname stuck to the statue. Why shouldn't it be otherwise with the ancient Romans? They were people just like you and me.
@@dudanunesbleff Unhappily that was the norm of all sorts of rulers in that time...and even after Christianity took hold. It's taken centuries for 'human rights' to evolve politically. It was only in my lifetime that rape was FINALLY deemed a war crime. We live and learn...then we get Bush Jr, Cheney and Gonzalez who somehow 'worded' the 'torture of prisoners of war' into a sort of acceptable practice. You will have noticed the lady general in charge of that prison whose POWs were targeted by Bush Jr hastened to disobey the illegal order of the president per military regulations and lawyered up to protect herself since she could not protect the POWs she was in charge of. Also of note Bush Jr used few soldiers to enforce his criminal activity but civilian contractors. A couple of the soldiers he used were later charged for their crimes and tried by the Army. We live and learn. If I remember rightly there is a bunch of paperwork from the Hague concerning their interest in speaking with Bush Jr, Cheney and Gonzalez about the torture of POWs so those lads are not going to be taking a European vacation any time soon. Some legacy for a US president to leave to History.
Impressive and masterful! These would be wonderful to incorporate into history classes for young students. Their common complaint is that the curriculum is too musty and dry to be useful. Use of images like these might change their minds. Well done!
Does no one watching this video know what a human being looks like? They look like aliens wearing rubber masks. High quality masks, but masks all the same. Enough to scare children.
@@bagiahkoukoubagia this person literally said "in all but title" meaning even though he wasn't officially an emperor, he pretty much was.. what he did for Rome, his leadership and the fact that his assassination is what lead to the creation of the empire almost certainly makes him deserving of the title. you need to chill and think a bit longer before you reply. you've made yourself look like a grumpy child :)
The Nerva-Antonine portraiture was mostly because of the Roman fascination with Greek styles. Greeks were traditionally bearded, while Romans were clean-shaven. That changed after Hadrian.
From Augustus to Trajan, the trend was to not have beards. Then from Hadrian to Maximian, the emperors tend to have beards. Next, from Constantine to Maurice, the emperors didn't have beards again, except for Julian the Apostate (the only non-Christian legit emperor in this period). Finally, from Heraclius to Constantine XI Palaiologos, every adult male emperor tended to have a beard.
I think that was more flattering the subject than genetics. Most of these figures are close to the Greek standard of beauty so are somewhat idealized. So I wouldn't take these as an absolute portrait.
there are so many comments complaining about the hard work done here and saying that these recreations look “all wrong” and “disappointing”...to them, i say: i’d like to see your version! if you think you can do better, by all means, show us. ;)
As much as I don't agree with those people and I think the recreations look really good, you can't brush off someone's criticism like "I'd like to see you try to do this thing". I'm allowed to say a meal doesn't taste good even though I can't cook for example.
I admit to thinking how the images might differ from what I see on the busts for a few but I would never voice it as complaint. These guys still did an amazing job top to bottom and I couldn't come close to this effort. So cheers to them.
@@epiccake7781 I agree, only if one knows about good food or what good food tastes like. But if one's everyday meal is fast or junk or tasteless food, the criticism is stupid and invalid. Many comments are that kind of criticism from people with negative intention and their opinions are just rubbish.
They're great but a number of them appear to be wearing blue eyeliner and pink lip gloss. I don't mean to be unappreciative as I think the realism is outstanding.
@@javiUSC Descrizione di Svetonio: il Princeps Augusto era piuttosto bello e distinto. Non molto alto (sembra calzasse scarpe “rialzate”) ma ben proporzionato e magro. Aveva denti e orecchie piccole, naso aquilino, sopracciglia unite, carnagione chiara, capelli biondi e moderatamente ricci. Propaganda nazista dici? Di 2000 anni fa?
These 10 mins was like watching thriller & horror mixed together. Do not get me wrong, everything is perfect - just you realize the tragedy of these men, who happened to be Roman emperors and suddenly came back to life... Most of them were quite handsome, especially the villains :(
It’s an amazing piece of work produced here,from the original sculptures to the present day artists who put faces to these men, the older I get the more intrigued by those who have gone long before us, ( I think in a way it’s the fear of the unknown when our time comes and we are no longer present but history)we are only here for a tiny snap shot of time,
True, the first and most important thing to achieve for every roman emperor (especially in late imperial age) was obtain and maintain praetorians loyalty as they were stationed always in the capital
On one occasion (year of four emperors I think) they even auctioned the throne to the highest bidder. So no, they weren't particularly loyal. ;) They were a major player in the early and middle Empire.
YES!... all the main characters of the Wars of the Roses....male and female... Edward and Elizabeth, Richard and Anne, Margaret Beaufort, Warwick, etc. That would be soooooooooooo interesting
Both Caligula & Nero were loved by the masses. It was the elites who despised them. And they in turn, were responsible for the false pernicious stories which led to our contemporary view of these two men.
@@hyacinthlynch843 Sounds kind of like the life of Michael Jackson. Loved by the masses but hated on by the elites. Which lead to false things being said about him.
You are not wrong - "natural causes" for a Roman ruler were assassination, poison, mysterious accident... death from old age was pretty rare. In school we were taught that the average length of a ruler's reign was about five years.
Well, in fact, you do, August lived to be 77 (ruled for 44 years), Tiberius 73 (23), Claudius 63, Titus died at 41 from a plague (which doesn't care if you are emperor or not), the Anthoinite emperors (Trajan, Hadrian, Antonius Pius and Marcus Aurelius) ruled from 98-181 CE, average 21 year. Caligula, Nero, Domitian and Commode had the bad grace to insult everyone around, raze dissatisfaction and bad rumours, and provoke conspiracies; yet last two ruled 15 years a peace. In the period of 226 years (30 BC - 196 AD) you had 17 emperors - 13 years rule on average. Bearing in mind the average lifespan at the time the numbers become even more graphic.
@@MovingOndaisy People used to live long in the past too. Life expectancy is an average. If there weren't so many wars , epidemics , and infant mortality , the life expectancy would be like ours. People tend to believe when they see life expectancies like 40 or 30 years , that majority of people use to live until this age. But that's incorrect. It's an average. It takes into account lots of people who died in infancy , killed in wars and the other people who could live until 80 or 90 years if they avoided wars or infant mortality.
If Disney ever made a film set in Ancient Rome (which surprisingly, they never have), the Praetorian Guard would almost certainly be the villains. Those guys were often corrupt, plotting and sometimes evil to the core. It's no wonder Constantine had them disbanded. One of the best decisions of his whole reign.
The one for Augustus actually looks pretty close to the actor’s depiction in HBO’s Rome. You appear to have skipped over the Year of the Four Emperors.
@@janecote The Julian Caesars were, I believe, all related in some way. The others look different. The Julian Caesars look mentally unbalanced to me. Vespasian looks rather genial.
Putting a face on these people helps me to realize they were just like us and not just some myth. What a blessing to be gifted with a talent like that.
@@meanwhileinjapan2265 stfu. Your mind is too linear to know what he really said. People like you are servants in this life, because you're far too slow and simple to do something meaningful.
Really? Did he look like you or you're kidding? It must be a thrill knowing that we looked very much like someone who lived so long ago... and that he was an emperor still famous after two millennia.
What a good video it is. However, I could see several things to be argued. 1. Caligula had reddish hair. 2. Tiberius had blue eyes - there are lots of possibilities that Claudian emperors also shared similar features 3. Flavian emperors had blonde hair - three emperors all. It is also proven that “Flavius” means “blonde” in Latin. 4. Otho has bold head - but his reconstruction looks much hairy.
@@paulucas7665 Tiberius’ eye color was mentioned as “caesii” & Claudius’ eye color as “γλαυχοφθαλμος», which led me consider Claudian bloods shared blue eyes - maybe Agrippina Major’s eye color be brown :)
Using your logic, American politician Marco Rubio should have red hair because his last name means someone with red hair, right? Just because their gens was Flavius doesn't mean there hair was blonde, its an idiotic way of interpreting considering "Flavius" is a name from early republican Rome, literally dozens of generations before the time of the flavian emperors, also flavius was a very common gens name around their time.
@@mere2162 Please read “de vitis Caesarum” by Gaius Suetonius before you want to say the logical problem. He clearly mentioned Vespasian had white hair, Titus had blonde hair and Domitian had blonde hair. Vespasian failed to prove his hair color in his youth, but most likely blonde because two sons of his had blonde hair color based on Bayesian estimation. If you don’t want to believe it, do you have alternative source??
Nero had a weak chin and covered it with a neck beard. You can see it in his statues. I started studying it the first time someone made a crack about him being another wannabe hipster with a neck beard years ago.
These are incredible. I was moved almost to tears on seeing how the Roman emperors actually looked. Because they now look human one can't help but feel emotional knowing they look like your average Joe that you see on the street everyday and how their lives ended.
What a marvelous work! You have successfully put flesh and skin to a lifeless statue like the masterpiece of Pygmalion - which is Galatea. You are a Genius!
this reminds of a quote in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, to paraphrase "There's a new principal? The last 2 principal's were eaten. Who would even apply to that job?"
Because most of them sought nothing more than power and didn't think about responsability and power manage. The five good emperors knew well how to keep peace with the senate, the people, the pretorians etc
Somehow the reconstructions look much more similar to one another than the sculptures. Some of the sculptures have strong features (e.g., in the chin) that are absent from the reconstructions. It's as if the AI algorithm made some enhanced averaging that toned down individualizing features. Maybe the database fed into it for each person had too much variance, which created the wash out of individual details. There are clearly some statutes that are more real life modeling of the individual Ceasars, while others done from second hand information. It may be that there was no weighing of which sculpture source is more likely to be a good representation? The goal is very interesting. Maybe training a reconstruction system based on present real people and model statues. So after you can use just one statue (assumed a good live model original) to reconstruct the person image.
Interesting video but blonde hair, blue eyes and pale skin was introduced to Ancient Rome from relations with Germanic/Celtic tribes. Those traits are not innate Roman traits, if you want to know what the majority of Ancient Romans look like look at most Southern Italians with olive skin and dark hair. What I said is backed up by genetic testing and not just my opinion. And yes, I know Northern Italians look very much like this today. However, do a DNA test and you will see they are genetically mixed with Germanic and Celtic tribes.
I’ve always felt that the statues of Augustus showed a handsome man. Idk how true they are to what he really looked like, but if so, he had a very nice face.
aria3329 The problem is that with that video, they used a painting of Anne Boleyn that wasn’t actually true to how she really looked (even though it is the most famous painting of her). There are other paintings of Anne Boleyn that are less famous, but were actually taken from life, so they are far more likely to represent how she actually looked. The painting of Anne that he copied was painting during her daughter’s reign (Elizabeth I), and was actually copied after Elizabeth’s face. Anne looked quite different from Elizabeth. I wish they had used one of the more realistic paintings, instead of simply using the most famous one.
@@justanotherhappyhumanist8832, it also used a painting of Mary I that was designed to make her look masculine in order to encourage a public unaccustomed to having a queen regnant to accept Mary's credibility ... but, again, the most famous one. I agree that basing them on portrayals known to be symbolic and not particularly like at all undermines a lot of what made the idea interesting.
All of them were handsomized twice over, once by the sculptor, again by the programmer. Although Augustus's hair was lighter than average, in this reconstruction, Augustus's hair is TOO light, he wasn't Swedish. It was probably light brown. His eyes are too blue, they were probably green or green/brown. This is a product of the 19th century myth that Roman leaders were defined by Northern European German ideals that Neitzsche espouses and later defined the German ideology of 1933.
@@annaclarafenyo8185 No, the depiction of the emperors in this video is based on Suetonius, who specifically said that Augustus had blond hair, bright eyes (likely blue or grey), medium complexion, and was exceedingly handsome.
@@monadsingleton9324 Suetonius was speaking Latin, and the words he used are best translated as "fair hair and light eyes". This means sandy brown perhaps sandy blonde, and green-brown or gray-green eyes. It must not be interpreted as blue eyes and blonde hair, like 19th century fools interpreted it, because this combination of traits was exceedingly rare at that time among all Romans. Your interpretation isn't based on Suetonius, it is based on Nietzsche and others misreading of Suetonius based on 19th century fantasies about an ancient blonde indo-European conquering race.
@@monadsingleton9324 Romans had a specific term to describe the color of German hair "aurea" which has similar roots to gold "aurum", and is very likely the word for blonde hair. This word isn't used for any emperor's hair. The word used for augustus's hair color "subflavum" is also used to describe the color of Caligula's hair, and here we are lucky enough to have a statue with traces of the original pigment intact, enough to reconstruct the paint job. The color in that case is a medium brown. Here is where I read this: medium.com/@davieco/were-roman-emperors-blonde-2255ec77d123 Here is the reconstructed Caligula with his "subflavum" Augustus-colored hair: www.pinterest.com/pin/201958364517736593/
@@annaclarafenyo8185 Subflavum means 'yellowish' in English. He likely meant that Augustus had dark blond hair that darkened further as he got older, as is the case with many people with blond hair. Quit trying to revision history so you can virtue signal your 21st Century moral superiority.
This kinda thing makes me stop and consider how lucky I am to live in a time when I get to experience this level of hair-raising realism being used to make ancient history practically breathe on me. If one of them suddenly started speaking in Latin I'd probably faint!
That would be fantastic to hear them speak... But the dead can't do that. I'd love some kind of recreation of spoken ancient Latin... I need to do a good old TH-cam search.. Great comment BTW.
Nero. The original neckbeard. In all seriousness though, this is fantastic work. I’d love to see more famous (and infamous) Romans digitalized in this way. You’ve earned a subscription.
Too much of a minefield doing ancient Egyptians, if they don't look like modern African Americans you get the woke and the 'we wuz kangz n shiet' hordes descending upon you
Same, similar thing happened when I saw ww1 in colour. Suddenly it wasn’t archival footage it was real and it was scary and I was legitimately watching young men die.
I really enjoy these videos immensely. So professional with their history , and lineage. And now the animation adds another cool reason to watch. Particularly liked this one , since my family is Roman.
Thank you for upload! The works mean a lot bc Roman sculptors didn’t idealize their subject much. Tiberius is awesome (I always had a soft spot for him).
Idk why but when I visited Rome, I thought all roman emperors had same face after looking at statues. Making their real face was soo cool. Thank you ❤️
It’s fascinating to see how different busts by different artists actually look alike! It proves they are not random faces, or better looking versions of the real man, but reliable and realistic depictions of a real face! Obviously we know little to nothing about their hair, eyes or skin colors, but I believe the overall appearance is quite similar! But then again, it’s easy to believe things when nobody is or will ever be able to prove me wrong.
It may be a worthwhile experiment to get a sculptor to do busts of living people, then reconstruct their unseen faces from these busts alone, and compare the results with the real thing. Just to see how accurate this method is.
Phenomenal
Good point!
@@annaclarafenyo8185 the fuck are you ranting about? OP said nothing about their hair.
@@annaclarafenyo8185 That was an interesting read. Thank you. History “buffs” tend to hijack the actual study of historical record for their own purposes, much as those Nazis did.
@@NotmyRealname847 I think Anna was just adding to the conversation by pointing out some errors reconstruction artists like the uploader make. For instance, making Augustus blonde. I would add that the “method” cannot be tested scientifically because this is an art and not a science. As a painter myself and friend and acquaintance of many fine portrait artists, I can tell you that a hundred different artists will each give you a hundred different renditions. The other major problem here is that like all portraiture through the ages (including selfies today), accuracy was not as important as flattery. Believe it or not, even wrinkles were added to make a subject look older and thus “wiser”. Augustus on the other hand made sure that he was depicted as younger and more fit than he actually was. When it comes to women, artists were even more likely to “outdo” reality. Two sculptures made 20 years apart might look like they were made around the same time because of how it was customary to depict the emperor. Many sculptures were based not on the live subject, even if the subject was still alive, but on other earlier sculptures the artist could use as a source. So in other words, the sculptures themselves probably aren’t all that accurate and even if the artist were trying their best to sculpt just as they saw it, they probably weren’t creating “from life” but rather copying another work. It’s all a game of marble telephone.
You sometimes forget that they were actually real people and not just myths or statues. It's weird when you think they actually existed.
At Pompeii, they found preserved loaves of bread (burned on the outside, but intact), the remains of nuts and chicken bones in the thermopolia (hot food "restaurants" along the streets), and the remains of people and pet dogs in the houses, with hardened volcanic mud around them forming a perfect mold showing their appearance.
Me I know they was exist for true.
It was not some long ago. Maybe numbers seems to be big, but 2000 years is really nothing. I guess ancient people were very similar to us in aspect of casual life, relationship, personality etc.
Especially when you realize just how insane some of them were (Caligula and Nero)
Not weird at all, they are historical figures and real people.
I know Julius Caesar wasn’t an emperor but it would’ve been nice to see a rendition of him.
Neither was Augustus
@@Alamyst2011 really? I think it said he was for over 40 years
@@Parismiami2012 Giaus Octavius Caesar Augustus was not a Emperor. At least not in his own lifetime and he refused the title on more than one occasion. It was not until after his death when they Julio-Claudians were attempting to establish legitimacy did they posthumously claim his dynasty to be Imperial
@@Alamyst2011 oh! Very interesting 🧐 thank you!!!!
Julius Caesar is the first rendition shown in one of the other videos:
th-cam.com/video/hOt7K1-m15k/w-d-xo.html
Tiberius and Caligula have striking similar facial features.
Hats off to the efforts of the creators.
creators? you mean god
@@N1azX2 aaah,I mean the digital artist who created these realistic facial reconstructions.
Your comment was funny.
they are parents
They were related
Definitely some similarities . I've seen busts of Caligula's father, Germanicus, and the resemblance is uncanny. For one who so much resembled his father, their personalities were nothing alike.
Using these recreated faces in deep fakes for historical movies would be a good use of the technology.
It's heading that way there is a movie called Looker that's about that very thing
100% Agree
@@girlonfire2.076: Will 100% be checking it out. I go nuts for that sort of thing.
Imagine using this tech on the film Downfall.....
Disrupting actor profession
All Roman statues were originally painted in full color (NOT left white), so this is the digital continuation of that tradition.
Yes, I’m sure the way they painted the statues was incredibly realistic, given how talented they were at created realistic statues. I would love to see a realistically painted Roman statue, created using the pigments at their disposal at the time. I have seen a couple that were painted, but they were painted by historians, not artists, and so weren’t painted very well.
Vow! I didn't know that.Thanx!
zipzap570 Yeah, Rome would have been full of colour - not just white, like we see in paintings and Hollywood. Buildings, statues - everything would have been painted a myriad of colours. Our modern conception of the white Roman aesthetic is totally inaccurate, and actually dates back to the Enlightenment and Renaissance, when Roman art and architecture was deemed the epitome of beauty. Because all the paint had washed off the statues over the years, Renaissance and Enlightenment Europeans assumed the statues and architecture had always been white. This misconception inspired European art and architecture of the time, and has lasted to this day! Nevertheless, there were a couple people during the Enlightenment who got it right! We actually have an account by a guy from back in the 18th century, who claimed that the Roman statues must have been painted because he saw a fleck of paint on one of them. Sadly, none of his peers listened to him, and his claim wasn’t taken seriously until recently, even though he was right! These days, we can use modern technology to test for trace amounts of pigment residue left on the statues, and that’s how we’ve discovered that Roman statues and architecture were, in fact, painted! 😊
@@justanotherhappyhumanist8832 im picturing the artists seeing future historians paint them and how disappointed they must feel😂. Im glad this this video was done by an artist!
Esther Ahn Haha, I know, right? And all the comments I have seen on articles about it consist of people commenting about how ugly the painted statues are, and how the white statues were better! Those poor Roman artists lol - they must be turning in their graves, screaming, “No! We painted them much better than those historians are painting them!” 😂
You have to be impressed by the original sculptors' work. The skill they had then allows for current artists to do realistic recreations now. I'm also extremely impressed by the AI artists that did this work!
Comparing that to that bronze Ronaldo statue lol😂
Man
When I was a kid, I used to think they were all blind
Why lmao
@@BR78973 I'm guessing because they don't put the irises and pupils of the eyes in the statues, so they're just blank. Don't know if that was an actual choice by the sculptors of the time, or if they painted the eyes in and the paint just wore off over the centuries.
@@Maerahn They were all very brightly coloured thousands of years ago, so the irises would've been painted on. You're right, the paint just wore off over the centuries. :)
Ha ha ha me too 😊😊😊😊
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These guys look like normal people I’d cross paths with in Walmart.
Nice name lol.
Well they were normal people they would eat, they would shit, and they died, like we all do
All white people like the same
Well no shit they're not gonna look like aliens are they?
Boy I want to live where you live then.
This is litteraly the coolest thing to me. Just to think these people actually walked this planet so long ago and we can get a small glimpse to what they looked like. God i love history lol
General Kenobi
Hello there
they all seem to have had the same barber too haha
To me it does not look like they exactly look like the looked in the staute, but its still pretty cool to see how they looked, but strange thing is that they all looked bit ugly and I dont think nobody nowdays have anymore left that kind lf strange faces these Roman people had in Roman empire. These all emperors in this video looked bit ugly with maybe expection being Augustus, that didnt look so ugly, when as man he still looked like child.
God I love History too...💖💖🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
I am italian. Central Italian. Nero looks like my dad. And the majority of them look like someone I have met just by having a walk. Thats amazing. Thank you ❤️
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I look like Caesar Augustus lol. Augustus might have had some Northman in him. I'm Norse/English. Augustus must have gotten it from his mother, clearly he doesn't look as Italian as the rest do.
@@JRGProjects you know northern italians can look like that right?? You are talking about sicilians
@@francoisdaureville323 yeah and what makes you think that Augustus was Nordic when they brutally fought Germanic tribes? He's Alpine /Dinaric and some atlantid phenotype typical Roman skull feature which is not that different from todays modern Italians and other southern Europeans.
Interesting video but blonde hair, blue eyes and pale skin was introduced to Ancient Rome from relations with Germanic/Celtic tribes. Those traits are not innate Roman traits, if you want to know what the majority of Ancient Romans look like look at most Southern Italians with olive skin and dark hair. What I said is backed up by genetic testing and not just my opinion.
And yes, I know Northern Italians look very much like this today. However, do a DNA test and you will see they are genetically mixed with Germanic and Celtic tribes.
@@GhostSal doesn t matter, like in ancient egypt blonde with blue eyes was special and so they though those people were gifted and this is why they became successful. This is not a video about the average roman it is a video about emperor and we all know some skin feature can raise you in rank pretty quick. TL/DR like today rich and powerful people in rome had lighter skin.
Things I noticed....
1.People born 2000 years later complain that these don't look like a person that any of us have seen. TH-cam folk are chronic complainers.
2. Being a Cesar seems pretty hazardous to one's health.
3. This is incredible work!
They all (mostly) had very short reins. Side note, a lot of them looked very similar.
@@HollyG1903 well they were pretty much all related one way or another, lots of interbreeding back then :)
@@nickyappleby1060 that explains it!
Double negative 🤣
@@RebekkaHay good catch. Edited!
Seems like in Ancient Rome "dying in conspiracy" was a natural cause. Good times.
Of all the emperors from 14 to 395 AD, 23 were assassinated, a further 8 were possibly assassinated, 9 were killed in battle, 5 died by suicide, 3 were executed, 1 died in captivity, 20 died of natural causes and 1 is unknown.
Worst job ever.
@@lycaonpictus9662 Crisis of 3rd century really destroys the statistic, doesn't it?
@Joseph Norm It wasn't too uncommon in that era. Primitive medical care by modern standards combined with outbreaks of various diseases. Someone dying at 41 then isn't necessarily suspicious. Heck, it's even not always suspicious now. Heart disease or various cancers (not to mention Covid) sometimes cut peoples lives short. Sometimes people just catch an unlucky break with their health.
@Joseph Norm people didnt usually live past 40 until the 20th century. It still happened, but thats a very recent thing where it became common. That should also be common knowledge. Regardless of if they lived a healthy life or not, it was most likely still natural causes. If someone had a heart attack or stroke, that was it. Certain ailments you were born with will kill you without attention, even something as simple as a digestive tract issue. It may not seem that way to us any more, but literally everything that you have wrong with you would eventually kill you in previous times. Especially in that era. Romans may have been advanced but they couldnt give you a pacemaker nor were they sanitary enough to provide a long life span. Life was also hard, no such thing as electronics or convenience back then. They also spent their lives either fighting for glory or arguing for a living, which is very taxing hence why some of them, despite being real young, look very old. Things didnt get easy until around the 1800s, but even then it was still tough until the mid 1900s.
@Joseph Norm that is literally the reality dude. You cannot decide how our past went because you dont understand it. I did not say they age faster. That would be nonsense, what i said was their lifestyles took a toll on them which is why they looked "older" which is a nice way of saying they look like crap. I dont want to be rude but you have to be some kind of stupid if you didnt understand this in history, or havent ever noticed people in certain positions and of certain lives dont live longer. You cannot decide how facts and history are because you dont like them or they dont agree with your feelings. Either that, or your school skipped history class for communism 101. In which case, i pity you.
Nero was literally a neckbeard. If fedoras had existed during the Rome Empire, Nero would have definitely worn one.
Stolen from a comment on DovahHatty’s video
Please please please look up “Nero coin”
Well, he did make the first ever femboy out of one of his boy slaves, castrated him and simped over him a bit
@@bertholdthoover7678 Also in this recontruction I can see the crazy of Nero.
He was also way fatter than this showed.
It's amazing that these statues can "come to life" using today's technology, and fascinating to see what they truly looked like. Thank you!
why do half of the roman emperors look like the guys who bullied me in high school
Remember, what does not kill you, makes you Roman warrior.
They reincarnated to bully you
*(looking confused at the old guys)*
Explains why they conquered the lands
Roman emperors were kind of jocks, eh?
You would imagine they had a godlike appearance, but they looked just like any person you would see on the streets today. Amazing.
Why would they thoughhhh? 🤔
@@bo9792 Why would they have a godlike appearance or why would they look like everybody else?
@@Saranda4787 why would they have God like appearances I meant * my bad
@@Saranda4787 just any person from history. Same can be said about the great warriors of ancient times. They often times looked more like your average guy then anything else. Like alexander the great, literally looked like simple young guy. Even tho he ran a massive empire for the short time he lived.
That’s why they’re called “First Citizen”
They looked like your local Italian restaurant owners
Augustus looks like a guy that would work at Google.
Hmm I wonder why?
They looked like mafia mobsters
Let me guess.. because they're italian?
@@BarnsOfChris yea
Truly beautiful.. a breathtaking spectacle. It’s possible to see all the minimal aspects, the genetics features that bind the Julio-Claudian dynasty’s members. My warmest congratulations to the digital artists who made this masterpiece.
I've always shared a interest in ancient Roman history and the Caesars. It's amazing seeing all these figures I've read so much about and watched so many documentaries come to life.
Here in Italy they are people I meet every day. Our ancestors did a great job. Eternal Rome.
@@musashi542 from a fellow romance family member (Spanish) don’t do that to your country. The government isn’t the country or the people or the culture. Italy is a place that should be a human treasure. Amor y Paz desde España
@@PossibleBat I'm not Italian, and coming from a Spaniard ur country is the Same thing lmao
@@PossibleBat even tho spain history not that gréât at all compared to Italy but still, powerfull country in the past( small one lol) , sht right now
@@DesertsOfHighfleet Y'all have to stop with this bullshit of Italians who are Germanic, the Germanics who settled in Italy were around 150,000 in a country of 14 million inhabitants so it is impossible, also genetic studies prove you wrong
@@qbcommando9394 the lombards were present for a long time, and we share ancestry for that reason with the germanics
People love to complain about everything. You did a great job with this.
The family resemblance of Augustus and Caligula is very strong ! Thank you for this amazing reconstruction.
They all look similar
@@missvida6251 It's the same IA so it's logical, all lips hair, ears are same, it's ridiculous.
These are mind blowing, realistic and bring history to life literally...
Yes they are good, but you do need to look up the dictionary definition of 'literally'.
@@jackie0604oxon You need to watch the MadTV 'literally' sketches.
Nice to finally see these guys with pupils.
No they don’t.
They clearly don’t match the statues and the animations are gross.
This is all very amateur.
It's propaganda for neo-Nazis.
I studied Latin and Roman History in high school and had an amazing teacher - she would have absolutely loved this video. After so many years of only seeing busts of these (mostly) great men - these animations bring them to life and they appear so human, rather then "god-like". Well done.
Then send her the video! She should still have her school email.
@@dayoldeggplant Rick, unfortunately she passed away many years ago, or else I most definitely would.
@@jduff59 Oh no....my condolences, sir. Well, at least there's comfort in knowing how much they'd love this kind of video.
Cheers!
I take Latin too! About to be on my AP year.
Why is no one appreciating the digital artists who have put a lot of work into this face modelling? Many of us don't have these skills. We could at least applaud the work they have done.
The reason is that the modelling is pushing a moronic 1933 style Germanic theory about how the ancient Roman emperors were blond. They weren't. Augustus had sandy brown hair, lighter than most, but not blond. This is an old Nietzschian talking point, which is completely false.
@@annaclarafenyo8185 traduz pls
@@annaclarafenyo8185 This is the lamest comment I've ever read.
@@donnymcjonny6531 I don''t believe you.
I do appreciate the efforts and the idea very much but, as I am a portrait and 3D artist myself, I have to say that the result of this work is very mediocre. Some fundamental features of most of these statues were badly miss-transposed. I am still impressed and very intrigued by his idea though.
Claudius (especially the part where he is animated) just seems so friendly and non-threathening.
Ele foi considerado um bom imperador
Si sono io Claudio... ero un bonaccio'
Such is life for Uncle Claudius.
The skiill of the Roman sculptures, the greatest ever.
INDEED!
Thinking about how they're all doing in heaven right now with God
The greatest ever? Surely they were surpassed by the likes of Michael-Angelo in the renaissance.
It really is amazing how talented they were. It's the closest thing to a photograph you could ask for.
@@prs_81 indeed
This video is an international treasure which should be displayed in Roman Empire exhibits at museums throughout the world and certainly in school courses on the subject. Superb job! Congratulations.
It would be, if it didn't include the "German emperor" myth in the blond hair and blue eyes on Augustus. None of the emperors were remotely Germanic looking.
@@annaclarafenyo8185 Definitely- I'm honestly surprised the video makes them so pale, considering they were living on the Mediterranean- the video is really cool otherwise, though
@@caseyaugust1846 The problem is that this is a horrifically idiotic political stance. You don't know the cockamamie theory this idea is based on. The theory here is that a bunch of blond people conquered the whole world 6000 years ago, taking all the world as theirs, from Britain to Italy, leaving the "proto-Indo-European" language as the only mark that they existed. Then, later, other people began to dilute their blond-genes out of existence.
There was indeed a group of proto-Indo-Europeans who spread tremendously far, because they were the first farmers. These people were NOT blond, they were Turkish, or someplace near there, central Asian.
The idea that they were blond was used by racial theorists in the 19th century to justify German superiority over modern Italians. The modern Italians, the story went, weren't like the ancient Romans, their genes were diluted by migrants.
Therefore, the ancient aristocracies of Rome were blond headed and blue eyed. This idea is explicitly expressed in Nietzsche, the main theorist of fascism.
This idea is insane. It is contradicted by all archaeological evidence, and genetic evidence. Proto-Indo-European language group comes from central asia, blond hair comes from northern Europe, while blue eyes is a mutation that appeared around the same time as the invention of farming and horse-husbandry and Indo European expansion, and only a tiny number of people in northern Europe were blue eyed.
This is not important at all, except for the ideology behind it.
@@ericwilliams-de6dx Don't exaggerate, the person who made this video likely made it in good faith without being aware of the history of this stuff. Don't blame him, he's a good graphic artist who got fooled by internet people. It's easy to get fooled, because genuinely the only people who care about Augustus's hair color are the morons who think the emperors were blonde.
@@annaclarafenyo8185 I totally agree- I thought it would have made far more sense for the photo-translations to more closely resemble Italians than the Germanic blond appearance the video creator went with- especially for Augustus
Yup. That confirms it.
Augustus looked like Daniel Craig.
Lol so true
Nicolai Carpathia in the original "Left Behind Trilogy" is his reincarnation.
Reincarnation
I've been saying that a lot but, now I see that you were ahead of me. Even other statues in other recreations make him look like Daniel Craig.
But more beauty!
All the woke people complaining that they are too blonde don't realize plenty of modern Italians look like exactly this and that not all Italians are the Hollywood stereotype- many are indistinguishable from celto-germanics.
If anyone wants an example just search “Marvin Vettori”, he’s an Italian MMA fighter.
never expect any sense coming from the woke, they are stupid loud ignorant mentality
Modern Italians are only blonde because of the Germanic invasions at the end of the empire. No early emperor would have been blonde.
@@HistoryMovieCritic that’s not true… you’re wrong and there were blonde Italians, Augustus was blonde and many others. Italians got darker with time, not lighter, due to the Arab conquest of Sicily and the south of Italy.
@@MalleusIudaeorum Cite your source. I have never seen that anywhere. Augustus was of Roman and Iberian ancestry. That means he would have dark hair unless a little bit of Celto-Iberian got mixed in and he might have brown or slightly reddish hair. The Greeks and Phoenicians also settled Hispania and they had black hair. There were no Italians until modern times. Blonde hair was a strictly Nordic trait and did not appear until the Germanic tribes invaded.
These Praetorian guards were busy weren't they, whacking one Roman emperor after another.
It’s not personal, it’s business 😁
*Prætorian
I wonder what the guards had against the
emperors?
Someone has to kick out the idiots, I suppose. Incompetence can only be tolerated for so long.
Rome's own "Deep State".
Absolutely fascinating! Brings world history into a sharper focas than mere statues can provide!
I see these recreations and think “that guy looks like Joe from down the street “.
But they were those Joes! I mean they look like common people, which they were.
@@stanislavasuplatovich2826
Maybe I should have said it like this.....”how many of y’all see one of these recreations and say ‘that guy looks like somebody I know?’l
@@farklefuster6876 But why should they look like somebody I/you don't know? They were human beings like you and me. Do you know that story about an ancient Egyptian statue of Kaaper, who was a member of the pharaoh family and a person of higher standing? When his statue was excavated, one of the Arab peasants who helped on the excavation site, exclaimed when seeing it, "Well, he looks like our headman of the village!" And the nickname stuck to the statue. Why shouldn't it be otherwise with the ancient Romans? They were people just like you and me.
@@stanislavasuplatovich2826 they weren't common at all. Many of them would be comparable to nazis, in the way they made war and treated people.
@@dudanunesbleff Unhappily that was the norm of all sorts of rulers in that time...and even after Christianity took hold. It's taken centuries for 'human rights' to evolve politically. It was only in my lifetime that rape was FINALLY deemed a war crime. We live and learn...then we get Bush Jr, Cheney and Gonzalez who somehow 'worded' the 'torture of prisoners of war' into a sort of acceptable practice. You will have noticed the lady general in charge of that prison whose POWs were targeted by Bush Jr hastened to disobey the illegal order of the president per military regulations and lawyered up to protect herself since she could not protect the POWs she was in charge of. Also of note Bush Jr used few soldiers to enforce his criminal activity but civilian contractors. A couple of the soldiers he used were later charged for their crimes and tried by the Army. We live and learn. If I remember rightly there is a bunch of paperwork from the Hague concerning their interest in speaking with Bush Jr, Cheney and Gonzalez about the torture of POWs so those lads are not going to be taking a European vacation any time soon. Some legacy for a US president to leave to History.
Impressive and masterful! These would be wonderful to incorporate into history classes for young students. Their common complaint is that the curriculum is too musty and dry to be useful. Use of images like these might change their minds. Well done!
Those Praetorians... sometimes they are the body-guards, other times the body-baggers.
Nero looks exactly like this football player that used to bully me in high school. I’d say that’s fitting lol.
Wedgie time
He even has a neckbeard 🤣
@@frederiklauber-richter1110 first neck beard
Michael Sheen is the best Nero.
@@cactusmalone he played on his own Olympics, a theater diva and a brainless jock on the same body!
This is insanely realistic
Little Caesar of "Little Caesar's Pizza".
Shows him how he'd look for real.
Does no one watching this video know what a human being looks like?
They look like aliens wearing rubber masks.
High quality masks, but masks all the same. Enough to scare children.
@@s4098429 what
@@s4098429 huh?
Roman emperor: gets accepted by senate
Also Roman emperor: gets killed in a conspiracy
Game of Thrones.... in real life!
No one in power ever conspires using hoi polloi as pawns, hush, 'conspiracy theorist' 😸 it only happened in ye olden days.
August's wife Livia was the assassin in most of these killings. She poisoned her husband's breakfast figs when he was no longer "useful" to her.
#DefundThePraetorianGuards
Dirty politics
Augustus was cute as hell! And the Juilio-Claudian emperors have a very distinct family resemblance.
No one:
Harry Potter newspapers:
Faaaaaaaaaak 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Fantastic job with matching their hair and eye colors too, just as recorded by historians of those days. Such realistic amazing work!
Thank you so much 😀
So realistic it's creepy. Wonder if someone could do this with people like George Washington.
@@MysteryScoop I thought you didn’t make these? Stop taking the credit
How do they know this? Can you post the links of historians describing blue eyes on their emperors?
@@conejeitor it is written the blue eyes and light hair was a julio claudian trait.
The funny thing is, the eyes all look alive compared to the dead look Hollywood graphics gives.
But you have to keep in mind that the snippets are quite brief, and the movements are limited. Much harder to do for a whole movie.
@@robertromero8692 yeah
Damn Augustus (and others) are incredibly imposing😲
Why leave out Julius Caesar? The first emperor in all but title, and the face everyone wants to see come to life
because it’s already on the pizza box of little caesars
Fact check: Octavian was, and he is Also know as Augustus
@@overpricedhealthcare haha
There is one of Caesar on another video.
@@bagiahkoukoubagia this person literally said "in all but title" meaning even though he wasn't officially an emperor, he pretty much was.. what he did for Rome, his leadership and the fact that his assassination is what lead to the creation of the empire almost certainly makes him deserving of the title. you need to chill and think a bit longer before you reply. you've made yourself look like a grumpy child :)
I just like how all the emperors decided to adopt a beard after Hadrian.
The gay dude rocked the beard so well they all got theirs
Constantine was clean-shaven.
The Nerva-Antonine portraiture was mostly because of the Roman fascination with Greek styles. Greeks were traditionally bearded, while Romans were clean-shaven. That changed after Hadrian.
From Augustus to Trajan, the trend was to not have beards. Then from Hadrian to Maximian, the emperors tend to have beards. Next, from Constantine to Maurice, the emperors didn't have beards again, except for Julian the Apostate (the only non-Christian legit emperor in this period). Finally, from Heraclius to Constantine XI Palaiologos, every adult male emperor tended to have a beard.
Absolutely incredible, I've wondered this for years. And you can see the Julio-Claudian facial features are similar from genetics.
I think that was more flattering the subject than genetics. Most of these figures are close to the Greek standard of beauty so are somewhat idealized. So I wouldn't take these as an absolute portrait.
@@indiciaobscure False. Roman sculpture tradition was far more naturalistic than the Greek style. The busts are considered accurate likeness'.
The Claudian genes are strong from Tiberius to Nero!
@@indiciaobscure Do you really think that a Vitellius bust has Greek beauty standards? Now stop talking and search properly next time
Julio cesar
Nero looks like such a teenager going through a beard phase that he'd be ashamed of later.
there are so many comments complaining about the hard work done here and saying that these recreations look “all wrong” and “disappointing”...to them, i say: i’d like to see your version! if you think you can do better, by all means, show us. ;)
Agreed.
As much as I don't agree with those people and I think the recreations look really good, you can't brush off someone's criticism like "I'd like to see you try to do this thing". I'm allowed to say a meal doesn't taste good even though I can't cook for example.
I admit to thinking how the images might differ from what I see on the busts for a few but I would never voice it as complaint. These guys still did an amazing job top to bottom and I couldn't come close to this effort. So cheers to them.
@@epiccake7781 I agree, only if one knows about good food or what good food tastes like. But if one's everyday meal is fast or junk or tasteless food, the criticism is stupid and invalid. Many comments are that kind of criticism from people with negative intention and their opinions are just rubbish.
They're great but a number of them appear to be wearing blue eyeliner and pink lip gloss. I don't mean to be unappreciative as I think the realism is outstanding.
I didn't know Daniel Craig was an Emperor of Rome before becoming James Bond
This is Nazi propoganda the artist sourced a nazi website. The Latin Romans had black hair, as did all mediterraneans
@@javiUSC false you south american latin wannabe. The first emperator line was light haired.
@@henrik3775 I'm latin italian. And we've had Augustus real picture for 2000 years .. go to school
@@javiUSC mario
@@javiUSC Descrizione di Svetonio: il Princeps Augusto era piuttosto bello e distinto. Non molto alto (sembra calzasse scarpe “rialzate”) ma ben proporzionato e magro. Aveva denti e orecchie piccole, naso aquilino, sopracciglia unite, carnagione chiara, capelli biondi e moderatamente ricci.
Propaganda nazista dici? Di 2000 anni fa?
These 10 mins was like watching thriller & horror mixed together. Do not get me wrong, everything is perfect - just you realize the tragedy of these men, who happened to be Roman emperors and suddenly came back to life... Most of them were quite handsome, especially the villains :(
They’re all mediocre at best, most are downright ugly 😂
It’s an amazing piece of work produced here,from the original sculptures to the present day artists who put faces to these men, the older I get the more intrigued by those who have gone long before us, ( I think in a way it’s the fear of the unknown when our time comes and we are no longer present but history)we are only here for a tiny snap shot of time,
The praetorian guard doesn't seem like a somewhat loyal Bodyguard..
True, the first and most important thing to achieve for every roman emperor (especially in late imperial age) was obtain and maintain praetorians loyalty as they were stationed always in the capital
thats why they were disbanded. dont rember which empereor but the one of the first thing he did was disband that damng group of greedy dogs
@Gennaro C. Septimus Severus?
On one occasion (year of four emperors I think) they even auctioned the throne to the highest bidder. So no, they weren't particularly loyal. ;) They were a major player in the early and middle Empire.
It was all about $
I would so love to see this artist's impressions of the House of Plantagenet Monarchs.particularly Edward IV and Richard III.
YES!... all the main characters of the Wars of the Roses....male and female... Edward and Elizabeth, Richard and Anne, Margaret Beaufort, Warwick, etc. That would be soooooooooooo interesting
That would be so cool, I agree!
Sadly we don't have statues of them anywhere near as accurate as the Romans'.
@@tricivenola8164 What about paintings
Totally agree with you
Nero and Caligula smiling like good boys. They were quite bloody in real.
I expected Nero to be fatter, but his model looked skinnier than the busts
YOU FOOL YOU FELL FOR SENATORIAL PROPAGANDA
Both Caligula & Nero were loved by the masses. It was the elites who despised them. And they in turn, were responsible for the false pernicious stories which led to our contemporary view of these two men.
@@hyacinthlynch843 Sounds like some others who have been maligned by history.
@@hyacinthlynch843 Sounds kind of like the life of Michael Jackson. Loved by the masses but hated on by the elites. Which lead to false things being said about him.
Tiberio, Caligola, Claudio and Nerone have something similar infact they were related. It's very very interesting, congrats from Italy! GREAT work!
8:06 the first and last floating head to ever lead. 🤣
Seriously, though, this is incredible. There were some pretty handsome men back then!
Conclusion: Don't be a ruler in Roman times.. You don't live long..
You are not wrong - "natural causes" for a Roman ruler were assassination, poison, mysterious accident... death from old age was pretty rare. In school we were taught that the average length of a ruler's reign was about five years.
Well, in fact, you do, August lived to be 77 (ruled for 44 years), Tiberius 73 (23), Claudius 63, Titus died at 41 from a plague (which doesn't care if you are emperor or not), the Anthoinite emperors (Trajan, Hadrian, Antonius Pius and Marcus Aurelius) ruled from 98-181 CE, average 21 year. Caligula, Nero, Domitian and Commode had the bad grace to insult everyone around, raze dissatisfaction and bad rumours, and provoke conspiracies; yet last two ruled 15 years a peace. In the period of 226 years (30 BC - 196 AD) you had 17 emperors - 13 years rule on average. Bearing in mind the average lifespan at the time the numbers become even more graphic.
I dunno 75+ is a good age based on stats from those times 👍
@@MovingOndaisy People used to live long in the past too.
Life expectancy is an average.
If there weren't so many wars , epidemics , and infant mortality , the life expectancy would be like ours.
People tend to believe when they see life expectancies like 40 or 30 years , that majority of people use to live until this age.
But that's incorrect.
It's an average.
It takes into account lots of people who died in infancy , killed in wars and the other people who could live until 80 or 90 years if they avoided wars or infant mortality.
Being the emperor of Rome wasn't all it was cracked up to be, especially if the Praetorian Guard didn't get their bonuses.
You were sweet if you had them on your side
@youtube name long hours of intrigue 😋
If Disney ever made a film set in Ancient Rome (which surprisingly, they never have), the Praetorian Guard would almost certainly be the villains. Those guys were often corrupt, plotting and sometimes evil to the core. It's no wonder Constantine had them disbanded. One of the best decisions of his whole reign.
@@thunderbird1921 It's true. They didn't govern, but they definitely had an opinion of the ones that did, and acted on it to their perceived benefit.
@youtube name not if the emperor finds out you conspiracy 😂
Very well done . Thank you for your work . The colour truly brings them to life .
The one for Augustus actually looks pretty close to the actor’s depiction in HBO’s Rome.
You appear to have skipped over the Year of the Four Emperors.
@Big Boss I guess I overlooked them.
No he didn’t lol
Augustus looks like Daniel Craig. The best looking Caesar by far!
Can you continue this? I’m curious about how the “Philosopher King” Marcus Aurelius would look IRL 😊
This same channel has him on another video. It’s better than these, which all look alike
@@janecote The Julian Caesars were, I believe, all related in some way. The others look different. The Julian Caesars look mentally unbalanced to me. Vespasian looks rather genial.
@@thomaszaccone3960 Of course I know that. But they’re not related to all of the other later emperors.
@@janecote yes i saw it thank you!
He just looks like an average Joe, same as the guys on the video. A little handsome.
Haroun Binous is a real talent. This truly remarkable work.
Putting a face on these people helps me to realize they were just like us and not just some myth. What a blessing to be gifted with a talent like that.
This really makes me feel that the people in history are real people like us and life was normal like us and that the world had colors back then
What are you smoking? the world was always real and in color people was real too.
It's crazy to.think how long ago they ROMED the earth.
Lol... jk... 2,000 years was forever ago!
@@meanwhileinjapan2265 well yes ofcrs lol but when I imagine those days my imagination goes in a black-white 240p movie
@@meanwhileinjapan2265 stfu. Your mind is too linear to know what he really said. People like you are servants in this life, because you're far too slow and simple to do something meaningful.
@@meanwhileinjapan2265 they're smoking the dumb dumb juice
3:37 Hey that's me!
You're handsome
You deserved better 😞
Ikr
Really? Did he look like you or you're kidding? It must be a thrill knowing that we looked very much like someone who lived so long ago... and that he was an emperor still famous after two millennia.
haha
That’s actually so cool… it bring ancient ages closer to us and easier for us to understand and relate!!🙌👌
What a good video it is.
However, I could see several things to be argued.
1. Caligula had reddish hair.
2. Tiberius had blue eyes - there are lots of possibilities that Claudian emperors also shared similar features
3. Flavian emperors had blonde hair - three emperors all. It is also proven that “Flavius” means “blonde” in Latin.
4. Otho has bold head - but his reconstruction looks much hairy.
A study of Caligula's sculptures was done, and traces of red dye were found on the hair. Even Wikipedia is about it. And brown eyes, not bright.
@@paulucas7665 Tiberius’ eye color was mentioned as “caesii” & Claudius’ eye color as “γλαυχοφθαλμος», which led me consider Claudian bloods shared blue eyes - maybe Agrippina Major’s eye color be brown :)
@@virapasas Ancient Rome aristocracy ('pure blood Italian') was more fairy, even if they were tanned.
Using your logic, American politician Marco Rubio should have red hair because his last name means someone with red hair, right? Just because their gens was Flavius doesn't mean there hair was blonde, its an idiotic way of interpreting considering "Flavius" is a name from early republican Rome, literally dozens of generations before the time of the flavian emperors, also flavius was a very common gens name around their time.
@@mere2162 Please read “de vitis Caesarum” by Gaius Suetonius before you want to say the logical problem. He clearly mentioned Vespasian had white hair, Titus had blonde hair and Domitian had blonde hair. Vespasian failed to prove his hair color in his youth, but most likely blonde because two sons of his had blonde hair color based on Bayesian estimation. If you don’t want to believe it, do you have alternative source??
Well done...Next version, I would like to see Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius.
Nero needed more chin🤣
He appeared to have more meat on his bones by the busts that were shown.
Yes I agree, his chin was wrong
Nero had a weak chin and covered it with a neck beard. You can see it in his statues. I started studying it the first time someone made a crack about him being another wannabe hipster with a neck beard years ago.
Nero was corpulent. The "human" adaption was much too slender.
@@sleekoduck Not a wannabe hipster?!?!🤣🙌🏾🤣🤣
Nero was bluish eyes, not brown or hazel.
your channel is incredible. So glad I found it!
This recreation of the first century Roman emperors is fantastic. Now we come to see them as ordinary people, the kind you can find anywhere.
Thank you! This was truly excellent. I've always loved Roman history. This video makes it even more real for me.
These are incredible. I was moved almost to tears on seeing how the Roman emperors actually looked. Because they now look human one can't help but feel emotional knowing they look like your average Joe that you see on the street everyday and how their lives ended.
What a marvelous work! You have successfully put flesh and skin to a lifeless statue like the masterpiece of Pygmalion - which is Galatea. You are a Genius!
They all look like Italian dudes today lol amazing
Where you see light hair and slavic look in Italy. All Italians look like midlle east muslims
@@Marko6286 no
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@@huseyintuver8601 💩👎🏻
@@Marko6286 Surely, you' ve never been in Italy.
considering most of their deaths were by murder, being an emperor wasnt all that great.
this reminds of a quote in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, to paraphrase "There's a new principal? The last 2 principal's were eaten. Who would even apply to that job?"
Just one psychopath replaced by another. Business as usual.
Because most of them sought nothing more than power and didn't think about responsability and power manage. The five good emperors knew well how to keep peace with the senate, the people, the pretorians etc
@@aleksa99se Very few of them could even remotely be considered psychopaths.
@@aleksa99se
You’re painting these fellows with a very broad stroke.
Who will remember you and I some 2000 years after we’re gone... or at least 100?! Just amazing!!
Somehow the reconstructions look much more similar to one another than the sculptures. Some of the sculptures have strong features (e.g., in the chin) that are absent from the reconstructions. It's as if the AI algorithm made some enhanced averaging that toned down individualizing features. Maybe the database fed into it for each person had too much variance, which created the wash out of individual details. There are clearly some statutes that are more real life modeling of the individual Ceasars, while others done from second hand information. It may be that there was no weighing of which sculpture source is more likely to be a good representation?
The goal is very interesting. Maybe training a reconstruction system based on present real people and model statues. So after you can use just one statue (assumed a good live model original) to reconstruct the person image.
As a lover of Roman history, this video really brings that history, and 4 years of classical Latin study, to life.
De imaginibus fixi erant valde bona est.
Interesting video but blonde hair, blue eyes and pale skin was introduced to Ancient Rome from relations with Germanic/Celtic tribes. Those traits are not innate Roman traits, if you want to know what the majority of Ancient Romans look like look at most Southern Italians with olive skin and dark hair. What I said is backed up by genetic testing and not just my opinion.
And yes, I know Northern Italians look very much like this today. However, do a DNA test and you will see they are genetically mixed with Germanic and Celtic tribes.
I’ve always felt that the statues of Augustus showed a handsome man. Idk how true they are to what he really looked like, but if so, he had a very nice face.
Oh I would love to see you do the Tudor kings..this is so amazing.
Check out their other videos because the first one I saw included Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn, etc. Wonderful!
He did one of the Tudors! Henry VII.. Henry VIII... Mary I.... Elizabeth I at 3 different ages.... and some others! It was SO cool!
aria3329 The problem is that with that video, they used a painting of Anne Boleyn that wasn’t actually true to how she really looked (even though it is the most famous painting of her). There are other paintings of Anne Boleyn that are less famous, but were actually taken from life, so they are far more likely to represent how she actually looked. The painting of Anne that he copied was painting during her daughter’s reign (Elizabeth I), and was actually copied after Elizabeth’s face. Anne looked quite different from Elizabeth. I wish they had used one of the more realistic paintings, instead of simply using the most famous one.
@@justanotherhappyhumanist8832, it also used a painting of Mary I that was designed to make her look masculine in order to encourage a public unaccustomed to having a queen regnant to accept Mary's credibility ... but, again, the most famous one. I agree that basing them on portrayals known to be symbolic and not particularly like at all undermines a lot of what made the idea interesting.
@@leviblevins513 and Edward VI, if I remember right.
I liked it.
Good work !
Many are missing like Caesar, Trajan ...
That Augustus fellow is quite handsome...
All of them were handsomized twice over, once by the sculptor, again by the programmer. Although Augustus's hair was lighter than average, in this reconstruction, Augustus's hair is TOO light, he wasn't Swedish. It was probably light brown. His eyes are too blue, they were probably green or green/brown. This is a product of the 19th century myth that Roman leaders were defined by Northern European German ideals that Neitzsche espouses and later defined the German ideology of 1933.
@@annaclarafenyo8185
No, the depiction of the emperors in this video is based on Suetonius, who specifically said that Augustus had blond hair, bright eyes (likely blue or grey), medium complexion, and was exceedingly handsome.
@@monadsingleton9324 Suetonius was speaking Latin, and the words he used are best translated as "fair hair and light eyes". This means sandy brown perhaps sandy blonde, and green-brown or gray-green eyes. It must not be interpreted as blue eyes and blonde hair, like 19th century fools interpreted it, because this combination of traits was exceedingly rare at that time among all Romans.
Your interpretation isn't based on Suetonius, it is based on Nietzsche and others misreading of Suetonius based on 19th century fantasies about an ancient blonde indo-European conquering race.
@@monadsingleton9324 Romans had a specific term to describe the color of German hair "aurea" which has similar roots to gold "aurum", and is very likely the word for blonde hair. This word isn't used for any emperor's hair. The word used for augustus's hair color "subflavum" is also used to describe the color of Caligula's hair, and here we are lucky enough to have a statue with traces of the original pigment intact, enough to reconstruct the paint job. The color in that case is a medium brown.
Here is where I read this: medium.com/@davieco/were-roman-emperors-blonde-2255ec77d123
Here is the reconstructed Caligula with his "subflavum" Augustus-colored hair: www.pinterest.com/pin/201958364517736593/
@@annaclarafenyo8185
Subflavum means 'yellowish' in English. He likely meant that Augustus had dark blond hair that darkened further as he got older, as is the case with many people with blond hair. Quit trying to revision history so you can virtue signal your 21st Century moral superiority.
This kinda thing makes me stop and consider how lucky I am to live in a time when I get to experience this level of hair-raising realism being used to make ancient history practically breathe on me. If one of them suddenly started speaking in Latin I'd probably faint!
That would be fantastic to hear them speak... But the dead can't do that. I'd love some kind of recreation of spoken ancient Latin... I need to do a good old TH-cam search..
Great comment BTW.
@@exwhyz9367 search polyMathy
What I would like to see is a modern bust of someone alive being converted into realism by this algorithm to see how well it works.
Deep fake technology is a thing, and there are classical latin linguistic enthusiasts still alive. Put 2 and 2 together and BANG!!!
No one spoke latin.
Latin is a WRITTEN LANGUAGE!
Nero. The original neckbeard.
In all seriousness though, this is fantastic work. I’d love to see more famous (and infamous) Romans digitalized in this way. You’ve earned a subscription.
If Nero was alive today he would be a Discord Mod
Danke an die damaligen Bildhauer ohne die dieses absolut beeindruckende Video nicht möglich gewesen wäre 🤩👍🏻
Fantastic!!! Egyptian soon?????
Maybe ? ;)
Only if they give them their original features and not some whitewashed ones!
@@mariyaaden602 the statues, save for those from Tut's time, look stylized. Like, at some point they all start looking the same.
Too much of a minefield doing ancient Egyptians, if they don't look like modern African Americans you get the woke and the 'we wuz kangz n shiet' hordes descending upon you
I'd love to see a video like that! but they'd have to disable the comment section bc otherwise it'll be full of arguments >_>
I can actually relate to them now as an actual person rather than a mere historical figure
Same, similar thing happened when I saw ww1 in colour. Suddenly it wasn’t archival footage it was real and it was scary and I was legitimately watching young men die.
Another amazing video! Some handsome hunks in there! You never let us down 👍💕👑
😊 thank you
It's indeed an amazing work because I've got now a crush on Augustus and Caligula.
And I don't care the age difference of 2000 years!
@@adrianjohn1820 😂😂🤗
I swert, one of the Greatest video Ever! All the world have to see this. Why tears in my eyies? Woww, the back to life.
My favorite figure was Caligula the maddest emperor of Rome.
Good work, it's damn realistic
I really enjoy these videos immensely. So professional with their history , and lineage. And now the animation adds another cool reason to watch. Particularly liked this one , since my family is Roman.
Thank you for upload! The works mean a lot bc Roman sculptors didn’t idealize their subject much. Tiberius is awesome (I always had a soft spot for him).
This is excellent work 👍
Ok, ok, Augustus was kinda hot
Go see my reply if it is still up
Tiberius could get it also 😉
Which one 🤪
He was! A lot of paintings make him look pretty attractive too. One of the best men to ever rule Rome.
Now I understand why they chose the actor that they did to portray him in HBO’s Rome.
Idk why but when I visited Rome, I thought all roman emperors had same face after looking at statues. Making their real face was soo cool. Thank you ❤️
This video is amazing. You've literally made the ancients come back to life !
It’s fascinating to see how different busts by different artists actually look alike! It proves they are not random faces, or better looking versions of the real man, but reliable and realistic depictions of a real face! Obviously we know little to nothing about their hair, eyes or skin colors, but I believe the overall appearance is quite similar! But then again, it’s easy to believe things when nobody is or will ever be able to prove me wrong.