Servilie et Soranus

[ricardienne]

Pursuant to this post, here's a random 18th century French historical painting of Servilia and her father before Nero's tribunal.

Comments

[achyvi]

Nero doesn't look very... Nero-ish. What's the point of having a crazy despotic-type ruler if he doesn't look the part??

[ricardienne]

I KNOW. It's also not as though we haven't always had lots and lots of images of Nero in all of his despotic glory (double chins and mullet and all):

[achyvi]

HARUMPH. SOME PEOPLE. You can't just ignore artistic tropes like that!