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Digital Sculpture Project: Laocoön

Catalogue Entry: Plaster cast of 19C Restoration

Name: Cast of the 19C Restoration of the Laocoon Group

Collection: Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois

Inventory Number: 1900.13.0001

Date Created: ca. 1873

Date Acquired: ca. 1873

Cast maker: Unknown. The cast was restored by Don Carlos and Lorado Taft in 1873. See Allen Stuart Weller. Lorado in Paris: The Letters of Lorado Taft, I880-1885. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985.

Material: Plaster

Dimensions: Height 238.2 cm.

Photographers: Kacie Alaga and Mohamed Abdelaziz.

3D Modeler: Mohamed Abdelaziz.

3D Annotations: Kacie Alaga.

Project Sponsor: Virtual World Heritage Laboratory, Indiana University.

Project Director: Bernard Frischer.

Acknowledgements: We thank the Spurlock Museum for permission to undertake this project, and we are grateful to Elizabeth Sutton, Director, and Travis Stansel, Assistant Registrar, for their assistance and hospitality.

[Catalogue entry by Bernard Frischer]


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