History of Europe

Face to face with the emperors of Rome

Many of us would have liked, for different reasons and reasons, to have a "face to face" with one of the emperors of Rome, a very difficult issue today. So, we have no choice but to "bring them back to life" using artificial intelligence, Photoshop, historical references and the hand of Canadian designer Daniel Voshart. To carry out the project, Voshart has used 800 images of busts and coins to obtain the faces of the 54 Roman emperors of the Principality stage (which extends from 27 BC to 285). The designer explains that his goal is not to romanticize or make the emperors seem heroic, but to show their approximate appearance when they were alive, assuming that the artists of the time tended to beautify the features of those who paid and ordered.

These are the photorealistic representations, with their references, of some of them:

Octavian Augustus

Tiberius

Caligula

Claudius

Nero

Vespasian

Titus

Trajan

Hadrian

Marcus Aurelius

Severe Septimius

Severe Alexander

Gordian I

And as a gift, the recreation of the face of the Statue of Liberty by the Dutch photographer Bas Uterwijk.