Lets see how we get on with this one. This is of course a portrait of Colin Farrell in Oliver Stone's disastrous 'Alexander'. The film was widely panned by critics, with Farrell himself putting the failure down to his awful blond hairstyle alone:
Now, Alexander wasn't blond. I think the tradition came about from because the ancient statues had lost their paint and he looked blond:
This is a portrait from the famous Alexander Mosaic at Pompeii:
As you can see, depicted about three hundred years after his death with dark hair, like any good Greek.
The dilemma is therefore whether to paint him as per the movie, or go for something more realistic. I think I'm going to go for the latter, so that it becomes a portrait of an Alexander who happens to look a bit like Farrell. rather than the bouffant blond from the screen. The costume designer obviously based the armour on the mosaic, so I'll use that as reference for the colouring.
Here are the parts:
A really good portrait of KC, as it happens.
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