How is the style of The Tetrarchs distinct from earlier examples Roman portraiture and why is this significant?
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The ideal Answer should include:
1. The Tetrarchs depicts the rulers that governed Diocletian's dictatorial empire and none of the figures bear an individual likeness.
2. The sculpture is symbolic of the powerful positions of the rulers and therefore their individualized likenesses are less significant.
3. They represent a conscious replacement of classical tradition by a providing a different aesthetic viewpoint-severe, militaristic, and abstract rather than idealized and classicizing.
4. The Tetrarchs may embody Diocletian's abstract concept of government or parallel the idealized abstraction of Neoplatonic provincial art in Diocletian's Dalmatian homeland.
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