Rather than mope about dying magazines, I thought I’d post this nifty video of portraits from the Roman-era Mediterranean world. Many of them are encaustic mummy paintings which have a weird alive-but-ghostly quality to them.
(Snaffled from David Meadows’ Rogue Classicism.)
No matter how stupid this is going to make me seem, when I see pictures like these, I’m always amazed at how similar they were to us. Always.
I know what you mean–that’s why I like them. My brain is full of ancient people who look like bronze or marble statues–then I see what of these paintings where the person looks like someone I’ve seen waiting on a bus-stop, and something snaps into focus. (Then I forget and I have to look at the paintings again to remind myself.)