Casting the Parthenon sculptures from the eighteenth century to the digital age / Emma M. Payne.
Casting the Parthenon sculptures from the eighteenth century to the digital age / Emma M. Payne.
Casting the Parthenon sculptures from the eighteenth century to the digital age / Emma M. Payne.
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London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021.
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G 2021/0150
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English
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xii, 212 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
The emergence of Fauvel and his successors -- Plaster casts, Elgin, and the British Museum -- Condition studies and the role of 3D imaging -- 3D imaging and the West Frieze -- 3D imaging and cleaning the Parthenon Sculptures -- An authentic source of evidence? -- Closing remarks.
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London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2021.
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Summary
"Through the 19th century, as archaeology started to emerge as a systematic discipline, plaster casting became a widely-adopted technique, newly applied by archaeologists to document and transmit discoveries from their expeditions. The Parthenon sculptures were some of the first to be cast. In the late 18th century and the first years of the 19th c...
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Casting the Parthenon sculptures from the eighteenth century to the digital age / Emma M. Payne.
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Revision of author's PhD thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-208) and index.
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G 2021/0150
Record Identifier
74VKa7NabgGA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKa7NabgGA
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ISBN
1350120340
9781350120341
DDC
938.5
MMS ID
991024386513702626
