Artist Combines Artifacts With AI To Create Realistic Portraits of Roman Emperors

If you make a purchase, My Modern Met may earn an affiliate commission. Please read our disclosure for more info. They are Roman emperors who lived long ago, but they remain embedded in popular imagination since the fall of the last ruler in 476 CE. They've been immortalized as busts and statues in museums, but a new project is helping to visualize what these people would've really looked like while alive. Daniel Voshart, a Toronto-based cinematographer and designer, has created photorealistic portraits of the 54 emperors of the Principate period (27 BC to 285 CE).