https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carus
Vespasian and Domitian were Italian nobles. Tacitus (who was Italian too) and Florianus were half-brothers, so they should be similar.
Marcus Aurelius family comes from Spain, and his mother was a noble Roman woman... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domitia_Calvilla ...and his father's mother was a Roman woman too.
It is all just speculation but compare it to this artistic rendition:
https://i.redd.it/92np45xeap521.jpg
Actually what irks me is his son Commodus: This is not how blonde people, even with a tan, even black haired Italians with a tan and narcistically coloring their hair with gold glitter, look like.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelian
> "The ancient sources do not agree on his place of birth, although he was generally accepted as being a native of Illyricum"
And that is Spain before the Moorish invasion. A similar asterisk could be added to much of the rest of North Africa regarding Muslim conquest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Muslim_conquests
Now I wonder if this has to do with the learning set or that those face types are very common.
I can imagine that celebrities in Roman times would look quite different and therefore would produce completely different renders for the same pictures and statues.
* Gallienus: Pedro Pascal
* Decius: Clive Owen
* Maximinus Thrax: George Clooney
* Augustus: Daniel Craig
This project is so hilarious and humanizing, I love it!