He hauntingly combined the solid verism of Lombard painting with the glowing colours of Giorgione and Titian. The Roman concept of portraying was most distinctive in so called veristic portraits, usually assumed to represent the essence of what was socially Roman. Thus, paradoxically, does a verist film like La Strada become cinema at its transcendent best, rich in imagination, profound in spirit, and pure in tone. With this new concept the portraiture obtained an unprecedented capacity to articulate and project the interior processes of human experience. These images tell us immediately that we are in the hands, not of a mere kitchen-sink realist, but of a poetic verist who is as concerned to evoke as to document.
Shorr today, more than ever before, is stressing artificiality over realism, the virtual over the veristic, intellection over intuition.Īt the same time, the striking verism of bodily gesture, her ability to suggest movement and animation, and her use of serial imagery produce a quasi-cinematic effect. Portraits of Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar set precedents for future. Lastman, especially, was admired for his clear narratives and classicizing, archaeologically veristic settings, and his attentive reading of classical sources. Veristic portraiture depicts the subject in hyper- realism, wrinkles and. However, the silent majority even of the twentieth century may look old in the manner of veristic Roman portrait before they reached thirty-five. Vespasian's images hark back to harsh styles of veristic portraiture of the late Republic. A hyper-realistic portrayal of the subjects facial characteristics, a common style of portraiture in the early to mid-Republic.