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[user 5827]

When you say CAESAR, you mean Julius Caius Caesar nobody else, if you want to mention an Emperor as Caesar you normally mention the name e.g Marcus Arelius, Adrian, Calicula etc..etc..

Excellent bust anyways, love to paint him....

 

[Wayneb]

Big Game Nerd.............sorry to offend..........Wayne

 

[Colin_Fraser]

Dear Sir, if this is a friendly site, PM next time please. I am a big game hunter and modelling nerd, not a video game person. I am also on many other painting/modelling boards this is not the only one.

There is nothing wrong with your name or avatar although I personally wish folk would use their real names or some other identifier. You certainly are not alone in this. But welcome aboard in any case.

To your comment, I don't think one can really classify criticizing the accuracy of a facial image on what purports to be a portrait of a real person as rivet counting. As a sculptor of personality busts for my own collection, albeit not near in the same league of Nuts' fine sculptors, I think that getting the features right is the most important thing in a portrait bust. But I can point to many commercial busts that are supposed to be personality pieces where the sculptor evidentally never bothered to look at a photo or painting of the subject.

Also, trying to find some other Caesar to say this is a portrait of smacks of rationalization to me. The bust is a beautiful achievement but looks nothing like an extant bust of any of the Caesars from Julius to Constantine. Many don't care. I do and would not buy it for that reason. I am not criticizing Nuts' choices but I really think they would have done better to have added a second more traditional head like they did with their Stauffenberg and Dick Winters busts.

If that is rivet counting, so be it.

Colin

 

[franceso sbarile]

Agreed the scuplting work is really superb but still I'm thinking he is not Julius Caesar. Basically beacause the face dosn't match with the marble busts representing him (most of them are dated under Augustus kingdom) but also beacause Caesar was brutally bald (his soldiers called him "Moechus Calvus" i.e. "the bald whoremonger man" !!!

 

[Gra30]

What a stunner and so skilfully executed. Not my era but a bench mark on sculpting indeed, he could be called anything as far as I'm concerned when presented to this high standard. Well done Nuts

 

[tomifune]

Have to agree with Franceso as there are two written acounts of his baldness. Suetonius was one and I believe Horace wrote about it in a poem as to not get the heat for it. It is a beautiful sculpt and maybe a salad of all the aforementioned Caesars which would make it a ............

Bob

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Dear Sir, if this is a friendly site, PM next time please. I am a big game hunter and modelling nerd, not a video game person. I am also on many other painting/modelling boards this is not the only one.​

Real names are more friendly N​

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Have to agree with Franceso as there are two written acounts of his baldness. Suetonius was one and I believe Horace wrote about it in a poem as to not get the heat for it. It is a beautiful sculpt and maybe a salad of all the aforementioned Caesars which would make it a ............

Bob

Im bald but wasn't always that way

 

[tomifune]

Im bald but wasn't always that way

Ron,
Based on some of the comments from your alleged friends, I'm afraid to ask what area of baldness you're talking about.

Bob

 

[Ron Tamburrini]

Ron,
Based on some of the comments from your alleged friends, I'm afraid to ask what area of baldness you're talking about.

Bob

Im sure they are all hairy arsed beasts but can't vouch for that , and certainly would not want to
All I can say is they are all fond of a burnt railway embankment ,

 

[Alex]

Look since I am the reincarnation of C. J. Caesar, I can tell you right away that this bust looks like me.
I'll buy it.

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