A Digital Restoration of the Portrait of Epicurus (Variant 1) from 341 video Watch Video
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Description: This video presents views of a 3D digital model of the Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BCE). The lost original statue was erected in Athens. We have many Roman copies of the head and also several headless torsos. This model was based on scans of: (1) a bust from Herculaneum in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples; and (2) the torso in the National Archaeological Museum of Florence. nnTo produce the reconstruction, we had to: (1) scale and connect the head to the torso; (2) digitally
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