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Lawrence Chadbourne's avatar

Another good piece.

I have visited the Virginia State Art museum in Richmond which has the better preserved of the two full size sculptures of Caligula known to survive. It is quite impressive and they put a lot of work into restoring it.

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Sebastián Panatt's avatar

Wow, It's always impressive to see those kind of statues. I remember the first time I saw a bust of a roman emperor (Adrian) in a museum in Spain. Stood there for hours.

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Tom Schecter's avatar

Seb—have you read any of Robert Fabbri’s VESPASIAN series? Really entertaining. Really hard look at what people are capable of if they are told they’re infallible…

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Sebastián Panatt's avatar

Oh no, but they look pretty interesting. Adding them to my list, currently finisingh the series of the Eagle by Simon Scarrow, where Vespasian is a really important character.

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