03-12-2014, 10:50 AM
What I find interesting in the Late Images of the Emperors is the change in the style used to portray them .... and why this change took place ....
Why, during the late II century the power of the State represented itself in this way (Commodus):
![[Image: 2554479487_62af579fd8_z.jpg~original]](http://i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p557/ironfather1/2554479487_62af579fd8_z.jpg~original)
and then they passed to this way to represent the Imperial power:
![[Image: fig_6webBibliotecaVaticanaCoppiadiTetrar...g~original]](http://i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p557/ironfather1/fig_6webBibliotecaVaticanaCoppiadiTetrarchi-Dioc-Massim-1.jpg~original)
Now, probably in this change, there is something more than a simple evolution (or maybe involution?) of the artistic and aesthetic taste, there is a new way to see the world and the power, the Hellenism is no more working here .... there is something radically new ....
Why, during the late II century the power of the State represented itself in this way (Commodus):
![[Image: 2554479487_62af579fd8_z.jpg~original]](http://s1155.photobucket.com/user/ironfather1/media/2554479487_62af579fd8_z.jpg.html)
and then they passed to this way to represent the Imperial power:
![[Image: fig_6webBibliotecaVaticanaCoppiadiTetrar...g~original]](http://s1155.photobucket.com/user/ironfather1/media/fig_6webBibliotecaVaticanaCoppiadiTetrarchi-Dioc-Massim-1.jpg.html)
Now, probably in this change, there is something more than a simple evolution (or maybe involution?) of the artistic and aesthetic taste, there is a new way to see the world and the power, the Hellenism is no more working here .... there is something radically new ....
