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These days we mostly make statues of football players and coaches (both real football and metric football). I guess these are as close as we get to emperors. B
by reddog 6y ago
These days we mostly make statues of football players and coaches (both real football and metric football). I guess these are as close as we get to emperors.
But despite modern techniques for capturing a 3D image, they rarely look like the living counterparts. Nick Sabens statue looks more like Andy Griffith. Gary Patterson’s statue flatters by shaving off several pounds. Does anyone think the Rocky Balboa statue looks like Stallone?
Is there any reason to think that the Roman emperors statues are any more true to life? Even if I was the most talented sculpture in the world, I know that if I was commissioned to do a statue of a still-living Caligula I wouldn’t include any warts.
- karmelapple 6y agoSeems like a good experiment for this tech: take some statues of people with known photographs, and see what imagery comes out.
- liability 6y ago> Does anyone think the Rocky Balboa statue looks like Stallone? (This is the only one of those I've seen in person.) I do actually. It's obviously not a perfect laser scan of his head, but I think it's quite clearly a depiction of the man, including the characteristic harsh lopsided nature of his face (which apparently is the result of nerve damage he sustained during birth.) That aspect of the statue is perhaps underplayed a bit, maybe out of respect, but I do think it's at least a recognizable reasonable depiction of him.