During the first century BCE, with all of this rise in individualism and the dominance of major egomaniacal figures in Roman politics, portraiture of individuals became increasingly popular. Julius Caesar was the first to blatantly put his own portrait on coins, an act that was considered extremely hubristic at the time. It became fashionable to make death masks of individuals and to have young people wear masks so that ancestors might be at least symbolically present at family or gens-related events. Super realistic portraits, often made by immigrant Greek sculptors, became a vogue in Rome. The movement came to be known as verism, V-E-R-I-S-M, and it featured a warts-and-all approach to portraying an individual. Every blemish and irregularity of the face was permitted in these astonishing portraits, some of them even made from cast death masks. Some individuals had portraits done that looked somewhat like themselves, but were given added attributes, such as belonged to famous statues of the Greek gods. A general, for example, such as Pompey was, well, after all, let's face it, not the handsomest man in Rome. And he was a rather down-to-earth man when dealing with other people. But even he could not resist flaring up his hair into a mane that seemed borrowed from portraits of Alexander the Great. It was also a time when a wealthy Roman would demonstrate his sophistication by having copies of important or favorite Greek works of art. Or adopted copies of them in his home to display to his houseguests. One such example was the so-called Idolino, now in the Archeological Museum of Florence. It was one of many, many copies that you'd expect to find within a Roman home of some wealth. And so let's just take a brief look at it right now.