Angela
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I will oblige:
DaVinci’s Lady with the Ermine
Compare to Flora.
I think why these prominent figures have a mix between the Roman bump and the Grecian nose is due to testosterone. Have no proof to back it up but intuitively that's what I think.
From the picture of the most beautiful man according to ancient Greeks you can see that there is a certain bump, it is not a straight Grecian nose:
"Antinous, the lover of Hadrian, was considered the most beautiful man of his time"
Michelangelo's David
Caesar
Alexander
Skanderbeg
I think all these figures have a hybrid nose between Grecian and Roman, straight/concave in men with a bump, as I said my guess is testosterone in men makes the Flora nose have a bump.
Even DaVinci had a similar nose aparently.
Here is Micheangelo himself.
Would love your guys opinion, weather testosterone can affect the bump on the nose, so as to create a hybrid between the Grecian nose and Roman nose in men.
Keep in mind that in the idealized nose of the Greek sculptors, whether in men or women, there’s no break or dip at all at the eyes. Look at Antinous: it’s a straight line from the forehead through the top of the nose. I’ve never seen that in realistic Roman busts of real people and rarely afterwards. It’s rarely seen anywhere, which leads me to wonder if it really existed in any great numbers.