verism

From the Latin verus (“true”),  a style of portraiture that attempts to depict a true likeness of an individual.  Etruscan and Roman sculptors working in the veristic style faithfully represented their subjects’ imperfections, such as wrinkles, warts, and baldness. Web resource here.

Veristic portraitPortrait bust of a man. Marble. Mid-first century CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.