Artist Lets Us Get A Glimpse Of What These 20 Famous Historical And Popular Figures ‘Really’ Looked Like

U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! (sorry, I need something to cheer about lately)

Yes- but the model that was used to create the Statue of Liberty: AKA Liberty Enlightening the World was the brother of the sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and he almost didn’t get the statue finished before the World Fair in New York in 1924.

Very intimidating.

She's gotta be from Jersey

And the Statue of Libertys face was modeled after the facial features of the brother of the sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.

It wasn’t a gift for welcoming migrants. It was for usa’s 100 th birthday. Please check you info. Before typing thx 😊

Actually the Statue of Libertys face was modeled after the facial features of the brother of the sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (who was French like he was).

Yes Elaine, I agree !!!

Usually the artists of the old eras struggled with poverty and by implication with other life's issues. Also, a cute, chill/tranquil face is not interesting, its just pretty, but it doesn't say an interesting story, its not powerful and heavy, so it doesn't have a memorable character.

Real ancient egyptians are supposed to look bantu. Didn't you know.

That little thing? Pfft! In Florence there's plenty of jokes about it

Fact is, Michelangelo was gay. Which explains why he depicted effeminate men.

I always look at his face but my eyes somehow manage to crawl down all the way to his

Not I!

LOL!

True. BTW- Why would anyone downvote this comment?

Ah but would he hit you back?

This guy could def pass for Middle-Eastern.

As a middle eastern jew i can tell you that he looks like one of the locals

Nope, he could easily go to the middle east or northern Africa and pass for local. He's just not stereotypical.

He looks very Middle Eastern, actually....

What the hell are you talking about?He totally looks like a Middle Easterner. I think people here just like to complain.

im a sephardi jew from the mid east and to be honest he looks like my sister🤣🤣🤣🤣

Except in that era we were all together. Nu? So much better than the blond blue-eyed version.

If I understood this article correctly, it's a neural network applied to old photographs and paintings. Presumably it's based on European paintings. I guess it would be more accurate if it was described as "what the guy portrayed in Jesus paintings would look like in real life".

He doesn't look european to me (an european living in europe). He looks more like a pale middle-eastern, no offense but he looks unwell.

He looks pretty Middle Eastern to me, but people in the Middle east can look anywhere from white to black, probably because it was the center of the world for a while so so many different ethnicity exist in that area, plus it is big. Buy looks close to my husband and his family migrated from that region. Could use bushier eyebrows though. nose looks pretty good though.

Far too!? It look middle eastern enough!

Israel isn't in the Middle East. It's right on the Mediterranean Sea. Have you seen ethnic Syrians and Lebanese. They look whiter than this.

Europe spent QUALITY TIME re-imagining Jesus as a Gentile. It's very well documented and it entirely depends on the artist. Roman stuff will look more Mediterranean and as you go north, by the Northern Renaissance the dude could be a member of Abba. It's just the way it is. We all KNOW Jesus was a jew. BUT as the church split the Jews off into the "bad" religion, it didn't serve the church.

He also wasn't handsome or good looking. That was so no one would get all lusty about him. That's in Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 53:2

Actually, his skin tone would be the colour of the imagination.

He doesn't look very european to me.