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Caesar facial reconstruction kit - Tarbicus - 11-08-2005
And he looks nothing like this
![[Image: juliuscaesar.jpg]](http://www.hbo.com/rome/img/90x94/castcrewlanding/juliuscaesar.jpg)
[url:2jpdmq2l]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Roman-Emperor-Julius-Caesar-Facial-Forensic-Model_W0QQitemZ6011746127QQcategoryZ4249QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem[/url]
Re: Caesar facial reconstruction kit - Marius_Ursus - 11-08-2005
Dude.
That's awesome!
I was just discussing Rome's cast with my wife this morning about how I hope when they shoot season two, the choose an actor who looks more like Augustus than the guy they have playing Julius Caesar.
Re: Caesar facial reconstruction kit - Carlton Bach - 11-08-2005
Where'd they get the skull?
Re: Caesar facial reconstruction kit - Gaivs Antonivs Satvrninvs - 11-08-2005
Avete,all.
CB: Good question(pragmatic as ever)
Tarbicus: Sure. But could he act?
Ursus: I had been wondering,myself. The kid's not going to age enough by next season,certainly.
Great kit,though.Wouldn't mind having one.(King Kong??? :roll: He wasn't real to begin with!).
Re: Caesar facial reconstruction kit - Robert Vermaat - 11-08-2005
Quote:Where'd they get the skull?I bet they started off backwards, with a model of his head, then worked back to a hypothetical skull...
Re: Caesar facial reconstruction kit - Tarbicus - 11-08-2005
Quote:I bet they started off backwards, with a model of his head, then worked back to a hypothetical skull...Vorti, are you a detective in real life? :wink:
Re: Caesar facial reconstruction kit - Robert Vermaat - 11-08-2005
No, an archivarian (or Documentary Information Supplyer as we like to be called
), which is sometimes the same thing... Oh yes, and we're a naturally suspicious profession!
Facing Caesar - Arthes - 11-09-2005
Greetings,
now this is an area that really fascinates me.....(as you may have gathered) facial reconstructions and faces from the past...
(if you are in an art gallery and see someone closely studying portraits.....that's probably me :lol: )
Didn't they have a death mask of JC, which would explain his rather woebegone expression...?
I will find his skull and see what I can come up with....unless it is the real one they are selling with the kit....
hock: :lol: regards
Arthes
Re: Caesar facial reconstruction kit - Arthes - 11-09-2005
Three angles of the same 'head' I think, one is from Jona's site
http://www.livius.org/caa-can/caesar/caesar_t09.html
http://www.indiana.edu/~class2/c102/net ... s/L129.JPG
http://www.phil.uni-erlangen.de/~p1alta ... aesar4.JPG
The nose of that reconstruction looks wrong, too fleshy as does the mouth, unless it is taken from a death mask..
I know Caesar as a soldier would have been subject to 'weathering' and looked rather older than his 54 years at death, but from what I can gather, he would have preferred 'realistic' portrayals...
Re: Caesar facial reconstruction kit - Uwe Bahr - 11-09-2005
Avete omnes,
some time ago I found this depiction in the world wide web:
![[Image: CaesarsTotenmaske.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/uwe-bahr/CaesarsTotenmaske.jpg)
Does anybody know whether Caesar's original death mask has survived and whether this mask could be authentic?
Uwe
Re: Caesar facial reconstruction kit - Arthes - 11-09-2005
Greetings Uwe,
Quote:Avete omnes,that looks very realistic, look at the slightly crooked nose and other irregular features, that you would find on a human face..It also has a cadaverous look.....the skin is very sunken in. Or a face that has suffered a lot of stress...
some time ago I found this depiction in the world wide web:
Does anybody know whether Caesar's original death mask has survived and whether this mask could be authentic?
Uwe
I can't work out if the odd eyes is due to perspective or not...
fascinating.....
It's on here [url:317cx9wk]http://thanatos.net/galleries/categories.php?cat_id=3&sessionid=b3c34f12a622b297c4d4e7441ae5e386&page=3[/url]
For some odd reason this site is giving me the creeps..... :?
regards
Arthes