historical portraits for 58BC

[bucellarii]

You give me far too much credit buddy!

In reality I possess a quite terrible memory. However all this work on FRRE has at least helped me to find my way around the primary sources a lot quicker than I could previously

It also helps to own a pretty decent collection of secondary souces with excellent footnotes. Why do you think in the Developer's Forum I regularly refer back to historians such as P A Brunt or A N Sherwin-White etc

[Iren]

wonderful portraits

[Salvor Hardin]

All hail the great artist! Thanks a lot for your great job with the portraits And to Kozak for providing them to us.

[L7c]

Salvor Hardin

 
All hail the great artist! Thanks a lot for your great job with the portraits :goodjob: And to Kozak for providing them to us.

Thank you very much

Also many thanks to my friend Kozak, for that helped to lay out here portraits and links

[Octavius Vatco]

might foound a good one here...
http://images.google.com.ph/imgres?i...%3Den%26sa%3DN

[L7c]

Octavius Vatco

might foound a good one here...

It is necessary to make a new portrait of Augustus?

[Octavius Vatco]

not really.. i just got addicted to the fun of searching...

[Salvor Hardin]

Looking great so far. I would choose picture 2, but I am no historian, of course.

By the way, I have already stored your excellent Marius and Sulla portraits in my computer.

[Octavius Vatco]

hopefully passing buce's standards?

Perfecto L7c....

[bucellarii]

Hey L7c!

You work fast and to a very high standard indeed

Gotta say picture 2 gets my vote as well...

[Kozak]

Hey L7c!

Gotta say picture 2 gets my vote as well...

Really.... second portrait is more "eastern"

[bucellarii]

Well I wouldn't necessarily describe the portrait as more eastern and nor would we want it to be, bearing in mind Numidia's location on the map

However the portrait is in keeping with the images here:

http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/numidia/t.html

[Salvor Hardin]

Downloaded and added to the FMIR WIP folder. Thanks again, L7c, it is a honor to have your great art in our projects.

[Octavius Vatco]

I knew it is not accurate too when Im searching for them, but they look good.

[L7c]

Salvor Hardin

Downloaded and added to the FMIR WIP folder. Thanks again, L7c, it is a honor to have your great art in our projects.

Thanks

Octavius Vatco

I knew it is not accurate too when Im searching for them, but they look good.

No problem, the main thing that small variants of portraits would look precisely and is not dim, in game they get, and the big variants simply for viewing

[Emperor Domitianus]

You are doing an amazing work. What about making this for all of the Emperors?
Tiberius, Caligola, Nero, Vespasian, Domitianus, Tito, Hadrian, Trajan etc

[Giovi]

You are doing an amazing work. What about making this for all of the Emperors?
Tiberius, Caligola, Nero, Vespasian, Domitianus, Tito, Hadrian, Trajan etc

theese are mods for post marian reform just the start of the empire and the the only emperor could only be caesar then i don't think is necesary

[Emperor Domitianus]

Ah ok.

[Salvor Hardin]

Well, the original scope of the FRRE project reached until Hadrian and some of the envisioned mods were The conquest of Britain by Claudius or The Year of the Four Emperors.

So, after Marius vs. Sulla, which I am already working in, perhaps the later might have some chance of being developed.

[bucellarii]

What did Caesar mount usually? was it a black Horse or a conventional white one? historically?

Apologies for the late reply but I have been away for a couple of weeks

He rode a remarkable horse, too, with feet that were almost human; for its hoofs were cloven in such a way as to look like toes. This horse was foaled on his own place, and since the soothsayers had declared that it foretold the rule of the world for its master, he reared it with the greatest care, and was the first to mount it, for it would endure no other rider. Afterwards, too, he dedicated a statue of it before the temple of Venus Genetrix.

Suetonius: Divus Iulius 61

This is the most notable ancient reference to Caesar's horse and as observed by Maria Wyke in Caesar: A Life in Western Culture the passage seems to recall the characteristics of Bucephalus, the wild horse tamed by Alexander, which provided that hero too with an oracle predicting world empire

Unfortunately there is no mention about the colouring of the horse

I can't claim to have thoroughly checked all the key source material. However I'm pretty sure no definitive statements exist that would answer your question.

Of course, if I stumble across something I will let you know....