Actual living human examples of the "Classical" phenotype?

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The forehead and nose specifically is what gives this look its specificity. But I don't recall ever actually seeing it in real life. Does anyone have any examples?
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I guess that will be really tough to have nowadays. Even in mummies you cannot see that level of detail. Of course, the experts can tell us more on this matter.
 
Pretty close, I think...Irene Papas...

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Caterina Murino?

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The mouth is all wrong, of course, but the nose is pretty close, I think...
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It's hard to tell because there aren't very many profile pictures of certain people.

Antonio Cupo looks like he might have a Greek nose...
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Ashton Kutcher? The tip spoils it but the root is good.
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The great actor John Barrymore was celebrated for his profile, and he loved to show it off, so there are a lot of pictures of him in profile:
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It was a bit of a family trait...Lionel:
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A lot of actors of the first half of the 20th century had it: John Gilbert
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Marcello Mastroianni...too much dip at the root maybe...
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Vittorio DeSica:
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Gregory Peck?
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Paul Newman...he was Jewish, btw...
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Andrea Boccaletti-model:
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Byron's had too much of a dip at the root?
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Wordsworth's was high rooted enough, but I think he had a bump going on...
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Same for Keats:
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Napoleon:
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Recently I was watching a tragedy (Electra) with Irene Papas.
 
Wonderful performance...

Pierre Casiraghi...his wife's (Beatrice Borromeo) is too low at the root I think. It's a Casiraghi trait from their father, Stefano Casiraghi, I think. Lots of genes for good looks in the Casiraghi's, obviously.
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Napoleon's picture seems very archaic, but then again, it may be the painter.
 
Tino Rossi, also from Corsica. There are lots of archaic Mediterranean looks there of all kinds.

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Barbara Fortuna singing group...I think they're great.
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The classical Greek nose is long, but it's also high rooted and absolutely straight, not convex at all, as Dinaric noses so often are...
 
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I have it .. and I'm not kidding. I wish I could show it off but I have to stay anonymous.

He is a good example I think:

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I have it .. and I'm not kidding. I wish I could show it off but I have to stay anonymous.

He is a good example I think:

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I agree. It pops up in unexpected places as well as Greece and Italy.

I'd love to have one, but although my nose is long and absolutely straight, it isn't high rooted enough. Too much of a depression there. So, close to this but not quite the real thing:
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Maybe Giuseppe Garibaldi ?

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The "high rooted" part is the difficult requirement.
 
I agree with Garibaldi and Elvis definitely.

Drew Barrymore slightly:

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Irene papas next to that statue looks a bit too concave ( as with some of the others ) while i agree with napoleon to an extent. The rest seem to have too short noses.

The phrenologist Petrus Camper actually studied the "Classical" phenotype and determined it to be related to the "facial angle":

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An albanian linguist called martin camaj has it slightly:

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Hmm, the last one looks like the "Engineers" from Prometheus (coincidence?).
 
Hmm, the last one looks like the "Engineers" from Prometheus (coincidence?).

No not a coincidence as Ridley Scott actually expressedly asked for the engineers to resemble "Greek gods" and so its very likely they would have come across petrus camper's work who influence many of the european sculptors of the time.

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^ I see. "Chariots of the Gods" and the like.
 
Maybe Giuseppe Garibaldi ?

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I thought about including him, but there are no good side views of him. Still, I think he probably did have it.

I thought about Mazzini too, but I think there was a bit of a depression there and then a bit of a curve, so maybe more Roman or Dinaric than Greek?
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Modigliani, the famous and spectacular Jewish Italian painter may have had it, but I can't find a good side view.
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Mark Ruffalo has always looked to me as if he jumped down from one of the walls at Pompeii, so I thought for sure he'd have one...
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In profile, though, I think there's a depression at the root. I wonder if it's a recessive trait?

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Messi is pretty darn close.
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Now, Liam Neeson has a Roman nose if ever I saw one.
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For sure not all Greeks had the so called Greek nose. It is possible that the first model they used had it and after that all sculptors took it as standard.
 
Maybe Camilla Belle.

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