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Marcus and Our English Porthonians.My post is basically about the BAFTA mask awards.Ive seen them for quite some time and noticed a definate similarity to an Alexander picture.Marcus Porthonians can you juat take a look in Renaults, The Nature of Alexander.
Page 67 there is a picture page with 4 stautues ,Take a look at the bottom left in the book its called,,, A Roman copy of an Original by Lysippus. Maybe im alone with my view the face looks exactly like the BAFTA mask inparticular the hair line and curls.Just a mention Kenny

Ha! Good call, Kenny!I don't know whether the award was based at all on an Alexander bust or statue, but you're right that there is a similarity. It's a bit formalised to be a true 'copy', but I wonder whether they did indeed take their inspiration from our chum ...Marcus

Hail MarcusI doubt the ceremony has anything at all to do with our guy,,,, But everytime I see those golden masks I see the Alexander statue.Kenny

IMHO I think it is the mask of Apollo, him being the god of Art (and the Muses). Appropriate I think!
Ciao

It doesn't look as if it was specifically meant to be Apollo, but it was an interpretation of the classical tragicomic mask.http://www.bafta.org/academy/mask.htmAll the bestMarcus

\Marcus HailDo you agree that the Bafta looks very much like the staue I mentioned,,, The hairline and curls are the same.,Regards
Kenny