Back to bumps and wrinkles all over the face and showing off the imperfections of age. Now something I haven 't touched on yet is why the emperors even cared about how they looked in the art that they commissioned. The reason for this is that they were worshiped just as the gods were. Not quiet to the level of the Egyptian Pharaohs, but along the same lines. They wanted to appear as the perfect ideals of the Roman civilization. They were their rules and since the empire was so large they wanted people to know who they were. They wanted them to see them as the as perfect a leader as they could be, so they tried to look as ideal as possible for the people to look upon their statues or paintings and see that they were the rightful rules of the empires. As said earlier I do not think that the Romans ever truly worshiped their ancestors. I can, however, see the correlation between the two subjects of showing off the imperfections of the flesh with verism to show age and that equalizing wisdom and the worship of ancestors. Personally, I like the idea of verism. That said, that may just be me growing up in an era where flawless skin, hour glass bodies, and rock hard muscles are the ideals of perfection. Then again, that may just be a personal bias since I have a body that is loaded with
Back to bumps and wrinkles all over the face and showing off the imperfections of age. Now something I haven 't touched on yet is why the emperors even cared about how they looked in the art that they commissioned. The reason for this is that they were worshiped just as the gods were. Not quiet to the level of the Egyptian Pharaohs, but along the same lines. They wanted to appear as the perfect ideals of the Roman civilization. They were their rules and since the empire was so large they wanted people to know who they were. They wanted them to see them as the as perfect a leader as they could be, so they tried to look as ideal as possible for the people to look upon their statues or paintings and see that they were the rightful rules of the empires. As said earlier I do not think that the Romans ever truly worshiped their ancestors. I can, however, see the correlation between the two subjects of showing off the imperfections of the flesh with verism to show age and that equalizing wisdom and the worship of ancestors. Personally, I like the idea of verism. That said, that may just be me growing up in an era where flawless skin, hour glass bodies, and rock hard muscles are the ideals of perfection. Then again, that may just be a personal bias since I have a body that is loaded with