The Digital Sculpture Project: Credits
Digital Sculpture Project Director:
- Bernard Frischer (University of Virginia)
Scholarly Collaborators:
- Kordelia Knoll (Dresden State Museums)
- David Koller (University of Virginia)
- Paolo Liverani (University of Florence; Vatican Museums)
3D Scanning:
- Christiane Bathow (Breuckmann GmbH)
- Chad Keller (University of Virginia)
- Laurent Wurmser (Breuckmann GmbH)
3D Modeling and Data Processing:
- Michael Booth (University. of Virginia)
- Bernd Breuckmann (Breuckmann GmbH)
- Kim Dylla (University of Virginia)
- Nick Kyger (University of Virginia)
- Jason Page (Direct Dimensions)
- Alessandro Spinetti (University of Florence)
Sponsors:
Institutional Sponsor:
Corporate Partners:
University Partners:
- Humanities Computing, University of Chicago
We thank the following scholars for permission to post digital versions of their publications:
- Adolf Borbein (University of Berlin)
- Andrea Felice (Vatican Museums)
We express special thanks to the collaborators who helped us with the following specific projects:
Dresden Project: We are grateful to Dr. Moritz Woelk, Director of the Department of Sculpture, Dresden State Museums, for permission to scan statues and casts in his collection. We thank Thomas Wurzer (FARO Europe GmbH & Co. KG) and Bernd Breuckmann (Breuckmann GmbH) for their sharing of scanning equipment. For their help with all matters, practical and scientific, we express our gratitude to Kordelia Knoll and Jürgen Lange of the Conservation Department of the Dresden State Museums. We owe a debt of gratitude to Klaus Werner, Musei Capitolini (Rome), for having promoted the idea of a project involving our Laboratory and the Dresden State Museums. Finally, we acknowledge a special debt to Direct Dimensions for the many contributions it generously made to the project, including solving technical problems in processing the raw scan data and aligning the individual models of fragments so that the pre-1894 appearance of "Alexander" and "Pan-Nymph" could be digitally restored.
Laocoon Project: The scan data are copyright 2010 by The Vatican Museums, which have kindly granted to the University of Virginia a nonexclusive, noncommercial right to display the scan models on The Digital Sculpture website of the Virtual world Heritage Laboratory. The scan data were collected by Bernd Breuckmann and Laurent Wurmser of Breuckmann GmbH assisted by Chad Keller and David Koller of the University of Virginia. The 3D models were created by Bernd Breuckmann, whose many signal contributions to this project we gratefully acknowledge. We also thank Prof. Antonio Paolucci, Director of The Vatican Museums, for permission to scan the Laocoon statue group and to publish it on our website. We are pleased to acknowledge the help given us by the following personnel of the Vatican Museums: Guy Devreux and the staff of the Laboratorio Restauro Materiali Lapidei; Giandomenico Spinola, Curator of the Reparto Antichità Classiche; Claudia Valeri, Assistant Curator of the same Reparto; and Rosanna Di Pinto, Director of the Archivio Fotografico. We express our heartfelt thanks to Prof. Paolo Liverani (Professor, University of Florence; Consultant, The Vatican Museums) for his constant support of and invaluable participation in this project. Finally, we thank The Samuel H. Kress Foundation for its generous sponsorship of this project.
Epicurus Project: The digitization and reconstruction of Epicurus' portrait statue is a project in collaboration with the TECHLab at the University of Florence. The 3D scanning was performed by Alessandro Spinetti, Carlo Atzeni, and Tommaso Grasso of the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Florence. We thank Dottoressa Maria Rosario Borriello, Director of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, and Dottoressa Carlotta Cianferoni, the Director of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze, for permission to digitize works in their collections.
Homepage photograph: The photograph on the Digital Sculpture Project website splash page (“Berlin Altes Museum”) is used with the kind permission of Dr. Pio Ferreri (Naples, Italy).
Copyright © 2009-10. Last updated: June 1, 2010.
The Digital Sculpture Project is an activity of the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory.