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If we are talking the Classical Age, since about 480 BCE. Greek statues are always idealized representations of the human form, expressions of what ancient Greeks considered to be ultimate beauty. But people don’t actually look like that in the same way that people don’t actually look like Square Enix characters, unless they get a lot of plastic surgery, in which case it wouldn’t be attractive, but unsettling.

Now Romans statues and busts did look true to life. Throughout most their history (but not always) they were into verisimilitude.

Here is an example:

Greek sculpture. Stylized. People don’t look like this.


Roman sculpture. Much less idealized, much more representational.


I love me some art history.