Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each trait: Republican verism or Augustan idealism?
Groups: Republican verism · Augustan idealism
- A face that never ages across forty years of statues
- Sagging neck rendered without mercy
- Deep wrinkles, jowls, receding hairline
- Classical Greek proportions and calm expression
- Divine descent signalled by Cupid at the ankle
- Age displayed as accumulated authority
Hints
- One style records age and service, the other timeless authority.
- Wrinkles argue for experience; smoothness argues for permanence.
Show the answer
Republican verism: Deep wrinkles, jowls, receding hairline, Sagging neck rendered without mercy, Age displayed as accumulated authority
Augustan idealism: A face that never ages across forty years of statues, Classical Greek proportions and calm expression, Divine descent signalled by Cupid at the ankle
Why
Verism says "I have served"; Augustan idealism says "I am eternal." The switch between them is a political program executed in marble.
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