oldhollywood:

Saul Bass designed title sequence from Spartacus (1960, dir. Stanley Kubrick)

“What we were going for in the Spartacus titles was the multiple layers of elegant & disdainful faces, which express the duality of Roman rule -the oppressiveness and the brutality, as well as the sophistication that made possible so many contributions to Western civilization. It seems very rich to see the growth of those profiles forming a full face, & full faces dissolving into profiles before the final face starts to crack apart and the camera zooms into the empty eye, signaling all is not well.”

-Bass, quoted in Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design