Digital Sculpture Project: News
August 27, 2024
Model of Francesco Primaticcio's bronze cast of the Laocoon Group (1543) added.
September 12, 2023
Webpages devoted to Laocoon Group updated; 3D model browser updated to Sketchfab.
January 30, 2021
Addition of the model of the Lion Sarcophagus to our website.
May 1, 2020
Addition of the Egyptian collection to our website.
August 7, 2018
Press conference at the Uffizi Gallery to celebrate the addition of the Florence collection to our website.
May 20, 2016
Press conference at the Uffizi Gallery to announce the start of the project to digitize the ancient
sculpture in the Uffizi collections.
March 22, 2013
Additions to the Caligula section of the website on March 22, 2013.
October 1, 2011
New version of website launched on October 1, 2011.
April 14, 2011
Project Director
October 22, 2010
Two books on stone carving techniques by Peter Rockwell et al. have been posted on The Digital Sculpture website: Peter Rockwell, The Art of Stoneworking: A Reference Guide (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 1993); and Peter Rockwell, Stanley Rosenfeld and Heather Hanley with photographs by Stanley Rosenfeld, The Compleat Marble Sleuth (Rockrose Publishing, Sunny Isles Beach, FL: 2004).
June 15, 2010
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a Collaborative Research Grant (RZ-51221) to the Lab in support of its project, "Creating a 'Total Environment' for the 'Caligula' in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA)."
April 15, 2010
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant (HD-51022-10) to the Lab in support of its project, "New Digital Tools for Restoring Polychromy to 3D Digital Models of Sculpture."
Dec. 28, 2009
A new article by Andrea Felice, “Fidelity and Technique of Plaster Casts,” has been posted on the Digital Sculpture Project website.
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