Crispina Posted April 14, 2021 Report Share Posted April 14, 2021 Brought to life using colorization and AI Technology. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispina Posted April 14, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2021 I should have remembered to move this post to "Imperium Romanorum". Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guy Posted April 15, 2021 Report Share Posted April 15, 2021 Thank you, Crispina. Although the eye coloring seems possibly too light, they are fabulous pictures. Those "come-to-life" images are absolutely breathless. Thank, you, again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispina Posted April 15, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2021 Yes, I would like to ask the artist how he/she arrived at eye color. And I imagine there was much more makeup worn by women than shown in the colorization. Which makes me wonder, in ancient writings are details like this about people ever written about by their peers? Not that I have read as much as others here probably have. Seems to me I do remember reading that Julius Caesar had "light gray" eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guy Posted April 16, 2021 Report Share Posted April 16, 2021 (edited) Thanks, again, for the video. Suetonius, writing (AD 121) more than a century after Caesar's death, gave this description: Quote 45. Caesar is said to have been tall, fair, and well-built, with a rather broad face and keen, dark-brown eyes. His health was sound, apart from sudden comas and a tendency to nightmares which troubled him towards the end of his life; but he twice had epileptic fits while on campaign. He was something of a dandy, always keeping his head carefully trimmed and shaved; and has been accused of having certain other hairy parts of his body depilated with tweezers. His baldness was a disfigurement which his enemies harped upon, much to his exasperation; but he used to comb the thin strands of hair forward from his poll, and of all the honours voted him by the Senate and People, none pleased him so much as the privilege of wearing a laurel wreath on all occasions — he constantly took advantage of it. Nice article on Caesar's appearance: https://www.knowledgesnacks.com/articles/was-julius-caesar-handsome/ Here's the image of Caesar many of us have (from the HBO movie "Rome"): Edited April 16, 2021 by guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispina Posted April 16, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2021 This is what I was looking for. Dark brown, not grey eyes. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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