The verists' vehement form of realism emphasized the ugly and sordid.Like his father-in-law, Tiberius maintained a youthful appearance in his portraiture in sculpture.Abandoning the veristic style of the Republican period, his portraits always showed him as an idealized young man.Imperial Sculpture in the Early Roman Empire.Aule Metele dresses as a Roman magistrate, and his face is a cross between Hellenistic and Roman veristic portraiture.Etruscan Art under the Influence of the Romans.His portraits show him as old, but fit and without the winkles of wisdom seen in Republican veristic portraiture.Architecture during the Severan Dynasty.Trajan Decius's portrait at first seems to take its artistic style from Republican veristic portraiture, but a closer look reveals something else.Sculpture during the Decline of the Roman Empire.The portraits of Julius Caesar are more veristic than those of Pompey.The use of veristic portraiture began to diminish in the first century BCE.Portraiture throughout the Republic celebrated old age with its verism.The use of veristic portraiture began to diminish during the Late Republic in the first century BCE.
Veristic images often show their male subject with receding hairlines, deep winkles, and even with warts.As with other forms of Roman art, Roman portraiture borrowed certain details from Greek art but adapted these to their own needs.Roman portraiture during the Republic is identified by its considerable realism, known as veristic portraiture.Art and Literature in the Roman Republic.Examples of veristic portraiture in the following topics:
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