Beautiful portraits but if u look its like the same ppl basically. At different ages or outfits ..some r different but u can clearly see that. Most likely royalty.
You are so incredibly gifted- thank you for bringing the past alive. I always squint and try and picture what ancient people really looked like- seems like your interpretations are hauntingly right on the mark.
I hate the races debates. Is wasting of your time.... In Rome - At that case Pompeii City - there was many types of races, and the slaves were the people who not pay their doubts..... There was blacks, whites (cream or whatever), yellows, mixed.
Fayum portraits are dated between 1A.D and 3A.D. they are not the ancients. It's funny even if you look at the pictures it's obvious they have black African admixture. They look like lighter skinned Ethiopians, with obvious European admixture. But for all that are attempting to pretend they are the ancients, why did the ancients switch from stone art/paintings to oil paintings and from Hieroglyphs to ARABIC. These portraits are of remnants from the Islamic and Osmanic conquests.
@Qayyin Look up Paquius Proculus you fucking idiot. He and his wife have dark features and are full blooded italians. They are not black nor are they northern white they are mediterraneans the greatest race in the world the only race that has done anything worthwhile on this earth. Your fucking anglosaxon chicken shit skinned barbarian ass is only jealous and thinks that the romans and the greeks looked as ugly as you fucking do.
@Qayyin You are a typical racist in denial of true history. Even paintings from hundreds of years before these were made of Greeks show dark hair, and dark featured people. Please, do go elsewhere and try spreading your lies. It's not working here. You racists are simply jealous of darker peoples who actually made civilization from the south in the Mediterranean.
Poor Hitler was mad that these "darkies" were more advanced than the Germanics of their time! ;)
@Qayyin Go ahead and go too Google Image search, then type in "Ancient Greek frescoes" and you'll see DARK complected people from 540 B.C. and 1500 B.C. - soldiers, families, etc.
Seriously, you're just in denial of the truth that hurts so much. Poor thing. lol! So respond back and tell me what you think of those ancient Greek frescoes you see with obvious similar coloring to the people in this video right here.
Or are you too scared to respond, since you're embarrassed now? Understandable...
It is a good effort. With some portraits it is not successful but it is generally good. Portraits come mainly from later Roman years and a large number are actually Egyptian Fayuyms - however they mostly depict the Hellenic upper class that continued to rule there in Roman times - it is stricking how close these people look like to modern Greeks. Some portraits depict too other people, either Middle Eastern or local Egyptian and there is even a portrait of a half-caste woman.
In the movie "Agora" the actors faces were based of the Fayum Portraits when the director Alejandro Amenabar and his crew were researching for the movie.
@moigranespiritu Large eyes and large noses are part of all Mediterranean/Semitic ancestry....
I find it pathetic that they woulsd try and distort the Racial features.... it SUCKS.... for indeed the eyes of the Mediterranean people are large.... we are like Eagles... and our eyes are valiant and fearless.. to the end....
@moigranespiritu : The problem with the internet is that you are unable to see who you're talking to. I can very much be considered to be "Germanic" and certainly "White". I appreciate your praises, but don't make the insults personal.
creo que el reconstruir la mirada de los retratos hace del video interesante, pero no lo considero relevante, no agrega nadadesde el punto de vista artístico, es más todos tenemos un ojo más grande que el otro: no somos perfectos. Sí creo que el artista toma a los ojos como la puerta del alma del retretado: una maravilla.
Their eyes are bigger because that is the general Racial characteristic of our Mediterranean Race... Large eyes and Noses.. like an Eagles... Such Racial features are the same ones found in the Greco/Roman Mosaics and Statues...
an obvious observation is that when the Romans drew these portrait, they make the eyes alot bigger than realistically (kind of like japanese anime in modern times?? =-)
could it be said that the Romans, like numerous other more 'advanced' civilization, thought that the eyes represent the spirit/essence of a person, thus making it bigger is more of a 'symbolic' gesture? (much like Michelangelo's "David" with its oversized head/hand?)
No toneshun... the Mediterranean Race is of large eyes and Noses... Eagle like...
Like Alexander the Great.... The same as any other Mediterraneans.. and that includes the MiddleEasterns exept the Saudis and egiptians... but all those countries that surround the Mediterranean have the same Racial features...
It´s our Olive.. Greco/Roman and Latin, Mediterranean Race...
Thank you, JudeMaris. This video was simply the most remarkable display of human facial reconstruction that I have ever seen. A true testament of one's heartfelt appreciation of antique art. I was nearly brought to tears from the realism of the transformations as the musical selections of the author (so appropriately) enhanced their effect. M. A. Ludwig is brilliant to say the least, and I commend him or her for this amazing contribution to our insight into the ancient past. ~HakatRe
I love the idea behind this video and the way that it has been presented..
I'm fascinated by faces from the distant (and sometimes not so distant) past and how they can sometimes reappear in our modern world. Have you ever looked at a face from the past and thought...I know them....!
I often wonder if there is an ancestral connection or it is just coincidence.
It's been said that there are only so many variations in human features before they inevitably repeat themselves in future generations. There is every indication that to some extent, that is certainly true!
I object heartily to your correcting this art....Who are you to destroy these works? This is a terrible mistake. I am a portrait painter and artist and I have drawn at least half a million drawings in my lifetime... and I say with expertise, having studied the Fayum portraits, that these works need no correction even if some of them are of lower quality than others. How sad to hang so solidly onto the modern filter that must have driven you to make these adjustments.
Gitabobita, you've misunderstood me entirely. My interest lies in the subject BEHIND the art, not the art itself. I wanted to see what the people looked like as they were being painted, which often took a different form in the artist's eye, which is fine. I'm not here to show what the painters SHOULD have done, I wanted to see the model behind the canvas. This is an experimental piece borne of curiosity, not a move to permanently change history. Apologies for the confusion.
as a greek and an artist, and an archeology student i strongly protest to your thoughts and your video. your logic is disjointed. if you are interested in the subject, you do not alter the image of this subject in order to get to an underlying truth or reality. these portraits were funerary; once buried they were not meant to be seen. this video is the same as taking a picture from a grave and altering it to serve some whimsical curiosity. please take it down.
As long as we're on the subject of disjointed logic, why do you, with the strong opinions you obviously have, study ARCHAEOLOGY? By definition, archaeology is "the study of human history and prehistory through the EXCAVATION of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains". If you have difficulties with disturbing the dead, then you really shouldn't be studying a field that specializes in it. And that's nothing to do with me. Look within.
I wan't going to respond to this rather juvenile reply but, after reading it again in, I felt the need. Koutsoupi, if you are indeed a student within the disciplines you've claimed, I suspect you won't go far in your career. The work you protest against was not intended to discredit the original artists' views of their subjects, but rather to enhance them to more realistic, anthropomorphic proportions. That is quite obvious... You have a lot more to learn regarding art, among other things.
JudeMaris shows a deep respect for the subjects in his/her work. There is nothing insulting nor degrading about this presentation, on the contrary it is a sensitive and probing look at the human beings behind the painted image. I believe your strong feelings on this stem from another, deeper source that merits some soul searching.
Beautiful portraits but if u look its like the same ppl basically. At different ages or outfits ..some r different but u can clearly see that. Most likely royalty.
QueenzFletch 1 month ago
You are so incredibly gifted- thank you for bringing the past alive. I always squint and try and picture what ancient people really looked like- seems like your interpretations are hauntingly right on the mark.
have you done any of King Tut and Smehnkhare?
1111rhn 3 months ago
I hate the races debates. Is wasting of your time.... In Rome - At that case Pompeii City - there was many types of races, and the slaves were the people who not pay their doubts..... There was blacks, whites (cream or whatever), yellows, mixed.
antifrituras 5 months ago
You make all the eyes so much smaller when in fact many middle eastern people have very big eyes.
tanrat7 6 months ago
Fayum portraits are dated between 1A.D and 3A.D. they are not the ancients. It's funny even if you look at the pictures it's obvious they have black African admixture. They look like lighter skinned Ethiopians, with obvious European admixture. But for all that are attempting to pretend they are the ancients, why did the ancients switch from stone art/paintings to oil paintings and from Hieroglyphs to ARABIC. These portraits are of remnants from the Islamic and Osmanic conquests.
Qayyin 10 months ago
@Qayyin But you know that almost all the people in the portraits are actually greek settlers from Alexandria?
robto 8 months ago
@Qayyin Look up Paquius Proculus you fucking idiot. He and his wife have dark features and are full blooded italians. They are not black nor are they northern white they are mediterraneans the greatest race in the world the only race that has done anything worthwhile on this earth. Your fucking anglosaxon chicken shit skinned barbarian ass is only jealous and thinks that the romans and the greeks looked as ugly as you fucking do.
AGViquez 8 months ago
@Qayyin You are a typical racist in denial of true history. Even paintings from hundreds of years before these were made of Greeks show dark hair, and dark featured people. Please, do go elsewhere and try spreading your lies. It's not working here. You racists are simply jealous of darker peoples who actually made civilization from the south in the Mediterranean.
Poor Hitler was mad that these "darkies" were more advanced than the Germanics of their time! ;)
Northax 7 months ago
@Qayyin Remnants from Islamic and Ottoman conquest? What r u talking about? Prophet Mohamed wasn't even born yet between 1 A.D. to 3 A.D.
beauvoir1949 6 months ago
@Qayyin Go ahead and go too Google Image search, then type in "Ancient Greek frescoes" and you'll see DARK complected people from 540 B.C. and 1500 B.C. - soldiers, families, etc.
Seriously, you're just in denial of the truth that hurts so much. Poor thing. lol! So respond back and tell me what you think of those ancient Greek frescoes you see with obvious similar coloring to the people in this video right here.
Or are you too scared to respond, since you're embarrassed now? Understandable...
Northax 5 months ago
Do not destroy the portraits!
Do not distort the truth PROJECT!
Learn to accept things as history shows!
4anuvis4 1 year ago
It is a good effort. With some portraits it is not successful but it is generally good. Portraits come mainly from later Roman years and a large number are actually Egyptian Fayuyms - however they mostly depict the Hellenic upper class that continued to rule there in Roman times - it is stricking how close these people look like to modern Greeks. Some portraits depict too other people, either Middle Eastern or local Egyptian and there is even a portrait of a half-caste woman.
notgodsemigod 1 year ago
Love the music u used for this video!
HistoryLover1550 1 year ago
In the movie "Agora" the actors faces were based of the Fayum Portraits when the director Alejandro Amenabar and his crew were researching for the movie.
HistoryLover1550 1 year ago
I've seen one of these before of a Roman woman, it was beautiful.
HistoryLover1550 1 year ago
Beautiful!
HistoryLover1550 1 year ago
They looked better without the enhancing.
PixieDust19962 1 year ago
early christians
elchippe 1 year ago
@moigranespiritu Large eyes and large noses are part of all Mediterranean/Semitic ancestry....
I find it pathetic that they woulsd try and distort the Racial features.... it SUCKS.... for indeed the eyes of the Mediterranean people are large.... we are like Eagles... and our eyes are valiant and fearless.. to the end....
moigranespiritu 1 year ago
molto bello grazie
sabinabarbara 1 year ago
bello
mircoseli 1 year ago
SALVE
Vraiment super
Vidéo magnifique
VALE.
CAESARVASIO 1 year ago
These paintings is echoed today in the newspaper's obituaries section.
Many photos of the deceased at the prime of their lives.
It also gives a clue to the ancient peoples' longevity: many died young.
A ancient Greek is lucky if he/she lives beyond the forties.
xaraxen 1 year ago
Great video... I love it!!!...
I have always been in love.. with the History of my Ancestors....
Thank you again... hope that you have a wonderful weekend!!!....
Ciao....
moigranespiritu 2 years ago
@moigranespiritu : The problem with the internet is that you are unable to see who you're talking to. I can very much be considered to be "Germanic" and certainly "White". I appreciate your praises, but don't make the insults personal.
JudeMaris 2 years ago
ENOUGH with the petty race wars, already. There's no prize for being an insulting bigot. Future offenders will be removed and blocked.
JudeMaris 2 years ago
@JudeMaris
Post anything an AE that doesn't claim that all Egyptians were 100% black African and you'll end up getting stalked. Personal experience. Mathilda.
scruffypair 1 year ago
creo que el reconstruir la mirada de los retratos hace del video interesante, pero no lo considero relevante, no agrega nadadesde el punto de vista artístico, es más todos tenemos un ojo más grande que el otro: no somos perfectos. Sí creo que el artista toma a los ojos como la puerta del alma del retretado: una maravilla.
2xmi 2 years ago
0:39
beautiful Italian girl.
EyeOfAmunRa 2 years ago
Their eyes are bigger because that is the general Racial characteristic of our Mediterranean Race... Large eyes and Noses.. like an Eagles... Such Racial features are the same ones found in the Greco/Roman Mosaics and Statues...
Mediterranean, Greco/Roman., Latin.. RACE!!!...
moigranespiritu 2 years ago
Great video.
Those portrats are magnific.
Cosmospectrvm 2 years ago
an obvious observation is that when the Romans drew these portrait, they make the eyes alot bigger than realistically (kind of like japanese anime in modern times?? =-)
could it be said that the Romans, like numerous other more 'advanced' civilization, thought that the eyes represent the spirit/essence of a person, thus making it bigger is more of a 'symbolic' gesture? (much like Michelangelo's "David" with its oversized head/hand?)
toneshun 2 years ago
stand to be correct here, i mean GREEK or EGYPTIAN, thanks to the posts below..
toneshun 2 years ago
No toneshun... the Mediterranean Race is of large eyes and Noses... Eagle like...
Like Alexander the Great.... The same as any other Mediterraneans.. and that includes the MiddleEasterns exept the Saudis and egiptians... but all those countries that surround the Mediterranean have the same Racial features...
It´s our Olive.. Greco/Roman and Latin, Mediterranean Race...
moigranespiritu 2 years ago
The features are NOT "enhanced".
Southern Europeans have very large eyes which are usually dark (but a minority light).
Why are you making them have eyes like Northern Europeans? You are a dope. Are you American? lol
Many of these are also Greco-Egyptian, not Roman or Greek.
The woman at 0:40 is definitely European though.
EyeOfAmunRa 2 years ago
i agree with you
BOGZASV8MA 2 years ago
And some Egyptians but the paintings are totally Greek.
LeonAmarantos 2 years ago
And some are Greeks of Italy (Pompeii) like the first one which is an icon of poet Sappho (from Lesbos,Greece)
LeonAmarantos 2 years ago
Greeks of Egypt to be accurate.
LeonAmarantos 2 years ago
Now these are Europeans.
justyce4all7 2 years ago
Beautiful
joifullnoize 2 years ago
Beautiful work.
scruffypair 2 years ago
Thank you, JudeMaris. This video was simply the most remarkable display of human facial reconstruction that I have ever seen. A true testament of one's heartfelt appreciation of antique art. I was nearly brought to tears from the realism of the transformations as the musical selections of the author (so appropriately) enhanced their effect. M. A. Ludwig is brilliant to say the least, and I commend him or her for this amazing contribution to our insight into the ancient past. ~HakatRe
HakatRe 2 years ago
Great video, and I see exactly what you were trying to do.
The paintings were obviously stylized to bring out the deceased persons best features.
You have simply toned it down to make the portraits appear more like the actual person.
As a person who has always been intrigued with the ancient past, these faces bring home the reality of the human beings represented by the portraits.
Thanks so much.
Celt1114 2 years ago
I love the idea behind this video and the way that it has been presented..
I'm fascinated by faces from the distant (and sometimes not so distant) past and how they can sometimes reappear in our modern world. Have you ever looked at a face from the past and thought...I know them....!
I often wonder if there is an ancestral connection or it is just coincidence.
Cynisca 3 years ago
It's been said that there are only so many variations in human features before they inevitably repeat themselves in future generations. There is every indication that to some extent, that is certainly true!
JudeMaris 3 years ago
@Cynisca there is one girl on here looks just like mackenzie phillips. I know what you mean.
1111rhn 3 months ago
Thank you for creating sharing this thoughful and thought provoking video.
Restitvtvs 3 years ago
Thanks for the interest!
JudeMaris 3 years ago
I object heartily to your correcting this art....Who are you to destroy these works? This is a terrible mistake. I am a portrait painter and artist and I have drawn at least half a million drawings in my lifetime... and I say with expertise, having studied the Fayum portraits, that these works need no correction even if some of them are of lower quality than others. How sad to hang so solidly onto the modern filter that must have driven you to make these adjustments.
gitabobita 3 years ago
Gitabobita, you've misunderstood me entirely. My interest lies in the subject BEHIND the art, not the art itself. I wanted to see what the people looked like as they were being painted, which often took a different form in the artist's eye, which is fine. I'm not here to show what the painters SHOULD have done, I wanted to see the model behind the canvas. This is an experimental piece borne of curiosity, not a move to permanently change history. Apologies for the confusion.
JudeMaris 3 years ago
Fascinating!! As a student of ancient history I find your presentation a great asset.
AinsleysRevenge 3 years ago
as a greek and an artist, and an archeology student i strongly protest to your thoughts and your video. your logic is disjointed. if you are interested in the subject, you do not alter the image of this subject in order to get to an underlying truth or reality. these portraits were funerary; once buried they were not meant to be seen. this video is the same as taking a picture from a grave and altering it to serve some whimsical curiosity. please take it down.
Koutsoupi 3 years ago
As long as we're on the subject of disjointed logic, why do you, with the strong opinions you obviously have, study ARCHAEOLOGY? By definition, archaeology is "the study of human history and prehistory through the EXCAVATION of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains". If you have difficulties with disturbing the dead, then you really shouldn't be studying a field that specializes in it. And that's nothing to do with me. Look within.
JudeMaris 3 years ago
I wan't going to respond to this rather juvenile reply but, after reading it again in, I felt the need. Koutsoupi, if you are indeed a student within the disciplines you've claimed, I suspect you won't go far in your career. The work you protest against was not intended to discredit the original artists' views of their subjects, but rather to enhance them to more realistic, anthropomorphic proportions. That is quite obvious... You have a lot more to learn regarding art, among other things.
HakatRe 2 years ago
JudeMaris shows a deep respect for the subjects in his/her work. There is nothing insulting nor degrading about this presentation, on the contrary it is a sensitive and probing look at the human beings behind the painted image. I believe your strong feelings on this stem from another, deeper source that merits some soul searching.
JonnysKia 2 years ago
Much appreciated! It's always a fascinating world.
JudeMaris 3 years ago