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Something to enlighten you up<br />
What Rome's emperors looked like: From Caligula to<br />
Tiberius... artist uses AI tech to reveal how legendary rulers<br />
would have looked around 2,000 years ago<br />
Daniel Voshart, from Toronto, Canada virtually sculpted and colourised portraits of 54<br />
Roman Emperors<br />
He used their stone busts as a base before adding details taken from coins, paintings<br />
and historical context<br />
The artist even chats with history professors and PhD student who have given him<br />
guidan<strong>ce</strong> on <strong>ce</strong>rtain figures<br />
By William Cole For Mailonline<br />
Published: 12:03 EDT, 22 August <strong>2020</strong> | Updated: 04:22 EDT, 23 August <strong>2020</strong><br />
An artist has transformed the chipped stone busts of ancient Roman emperors<br />
into photorealistic portraits with the help of historical artefacts and creative<br />
software.<br />
Daniel Voshart, from Toronto, Canada, says that his project of painstakingly<br />
colourising and shaping the fa<strong>ce</strong>s of 54 Principate rulers was 'a quarantine project<br />
that got a bit out of hand', but it has attracted attention from hobbyists to historians.<br />
And he has now released his completed work in a series of stunning portraits and<br />
posters that cover 300 years of Roman history.<br />
Though more interested in design work for VR for use in architecture and the film<br />
industry, the coronavirus pandemic brought Daniel's work to stop and left him with<br />
time to explore his hobby of colourising statues.<br />
When he came to pick a subject however, he chose to research the busts of Roman<br />
Emperors who controlled its sprawling empire during the first three-<strong>ce</strong>ntury-long<br />
Principate, despite not being particularly interested in ancient history.<br />
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