A quick n' dirty (as usual) test in Blender at retopologizing and manually (pun intended) rigging a great scan: ["Hand"](https://skfb.ly/6GW88) by [Artec 3D](https://sketchfab.com/artec3d), available under CC-attribution. 

The base mesh used for the retopology is [Low Poly Human Hands (All Quads)](https://skfb.ly/6NUy9) from [Jeremy E. Grayson](https://sketchfab.com/JeremyGrayson), also available under CC-Attribution.

Based on an original "concept" by Michelangelo, from the Sistine chapel's ceiling ;)

![Creation of adam picture](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Michelangelo_-_Creation_of_Adam_%28cropped%29.jpg/800px-Michelangelo_-_Creation_of_Adam_%28cropped%29.jpg)

The Creation of Adam

Mausoleum of the former lord of the castle Joseph Maria Sulkowski and his wife Louise Vecseghy at the cemetery of Feistritz am Wechsel. The neo-Gothic funeral chapel was built in 1892.

![](https://noe-3d.at/SF/mausoleum01.jpg)

Mausoleum

***Homo sapiens*** 
  
Location: Cro-Magnon, Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France. 
  
Age: 27,700 years B.P. 
  
Material: plaster cast. 

Dimensions: length, 223 mm; width, 153 mm; height, 156 mm.
  
Notes: RLA catalog no. 1979rp16-1 (cast).  Male cranium.  Discovered in 1868 by Louis Lartet.  Cast made by the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.  From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Model by Aidan Paul.

Homo sapiens (Cro-Magnon I) Skull (1979rp16-1)

The Undercroft of Lincoln's Inn Chapel, London.

Date: 1619-23 (by John Clark).

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1379317

3297 photos taken in June 2023 with a Sony a7R III and processed in Reality Capture. 
Lamps on exterior walls modelled by hand.

Lincoln's Inn Chapel Undercroft

***Paranthropus boisei***

Location: Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

Age: 1.8 million years ago.

Material: epoxy resin cast.

Dimensions: length, 215 mm; width, 157 mm; height, 117 mm.

Notes: RLA catalog no. 2501.1rp74 (cast).  Fossil discovered in 1959 by Mary Leakey and described by P. Tobias.  Represented the first reliable chronometric assessment of an early hominid.  Nearly complete cranium, called "Zinj."  Cast made by the Wenner-Gren Foundation Casting Program at the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.  From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Model by Madelaine Azar.

Paranthropus boisei (2501.1rp74-1) - cranium

***Homo sapiens***

Location: Upper Cave, Zhoukoudian, China.

Age: 10,000-20,000 years B.P.

Material: plaster cast.

Dimensions: length, 218 mm; width, 145 mm; height, 150 mm.

Notes: RLA catalog no. 1979rp44 (cast).  "Old Man" skull.  Discovered in 1933-1934 during excavations in the Upper Cave (also known as Shandingdong) at Zhoujoudian by Bei Wenzhong under the direction of Franz Weidenreich.  Lost during the Japanese occupation in 1941.  Cast made by the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.  From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Model by Jordyn Gray.

Homo sapiens (Upper Cave, Zhoukoudian)(1979rp44)

[Louvre Museum, Paris, France.](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiaque_de_Dend%C3%A9rah)

The sculptured Dendera zodiac (or Denderah zodiac) is a widely known Egyptian bas-relief from the ceiling of the pronaos (or portico) of a chapel dedicated to Osiris in the Hathor temple at Dendera, containing images of Taurus (the bull) and Libra (the scales). This chapel was begun in the late Ptolemaic period; its pronaos was added by the emperor Tiberius. This led Jean-François Champollion to date the relief to the Greco-Roman period, but most of his contemporaries believed it to be of the New Kingdom.

The relief, which John H. Rogers characterised as "the only complete map that we have of an ancient sky", has been conjectured in the past to represent the basis on which later astronomy systems were based.

Dendera Zodiac - Louvre

Bønhúsbergið, Mykines, Føroyar

*The Chapelcliff on the island of Mykines, Faroe Islands*

Model by Helgi D. Michelsen

Bønhúsbergið, Mykines, Føroyar

***Australopithecus africanus*** 
  
Location: Makapansgat, South Africa. 
  
Age: about 3.0 million years ago. 
  
Material: epoxy resin cast. 

Dimensions: length, 68 mm; width, 82 mm; height, 34 mm.
  
Notes: RLA catalog no. 2501.1rp40 (cast).  Mandible.  Cast made by the Wenner-Gren Foundation Casting Program at the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.  From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Model by Steve Davis.

Australopithecus africanus (2501.1rp40)

Hore Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery near the Rock of Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland. It was founded by the Benedictine order in 1266. This model includes both the exterior and interior spaces, generated using a combination of aerial and ground photography (1500 images total). 

Most of the abbey was built in the thirteenth century, however many changes were made to the buildings in the fifteenth century including the addition of the tower in the centre of the transept. The cruciform church comprised, in addition to the chancel, a nave with aisles and two chapels to the east of each transept. The nave is exceptionally plain and the overall design is a perfect example of the conservative approach of the Cistercians. Hore was the only Cistercian monastery in Ireland where the cloister was positioned to the north of the abbey.  The ruins are now surrounded by fields of sheep and cattle and can be accessed by the public.

Ruins of Hore Abbey

***Pan troglodytes*** 
  
Location: Africa. 
  
Age: modern. 
  
Material: epoxy resin cast. 

Dimensions: length, 195 mm; width, 130 mm; height, 105 mm.
  
Notes: RLA catalog no. 2501.1rp4-1 (cast).  Male chimpanzee cranium.  Cast manufacturer unknown.  From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Model by Jordyn Gray.

Pan troglodytes (modern) (2501.1rp4-1)

***Homo erectus***

Location: Zhou Xian, China.

Age: 680,000-780,000 years B.P.

Material: plaster cast.

Dimensions: length, 214 mm; width, 149 mm; height, 130 mm.

Notes: RLA catalog no. 1979rp44 (cast).  Skull discovered between 1929 and 1936 in a cave near Zhou Xian, and lost during World War II.  Cast is based on descriptions, photographs, sketches, and reconstructions by Davidson Black and Franz Weidenreich.  Formerly classified as Sinanthropus pekinensis and Homo erectus pekinensis.  Cast made by the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.  From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Model by Joy Mersmann.

Homo erectus (Peking Man) (1979rp10-1)-cranium

The cloister leading to the chapel at The Charterhouse, London. The cloister was enclosed in 1614.

Visit the Charterhouse by booking an excellent tour here: https://thecharterhouse.digitickets.co.uk/tickets

584 photos taken in May 2019 with a Sony a6000 and processed in Agisoft Metashape.

The Charterhouse Chapel Cloister

Historic wooden church in Trzęsówka, Subcarpathia, Poland.

From Wikipedia:
The church was built in 1759 as a court chapel of the Kuczkowski family. It originally bore the invocation of St. John the Evangelist. In 1778 it became a branch church. From 1788 it became the parish church of the newly-established parish of Saint Anne.

In 1903 the nave was lengthened by 9 meters, the roof was covered with galvanized sheet metal, and a side chapel and a granary were added. The wooden floor was replaced with cement board flooring, and the square windows were replaced with arched ones. In 1905, the interior was plastered, polychrome was laid, the altars were restored, the organ and the fence were repaired. A new organ was purchased in 1960. The altars were renovated in 1976, and the polychrome in 1977.

The building served as a parish church until 2004, when a new temple was put into use. On April 7, 2004 it was entered in the register of monuments

Historic wooden church

Statue of the Mater Dolorosa at the Plague Chapel on Bruckerstraße in Parndorf. 

Mater Dolorosa, also called the Mother of Sorrows, is the usual name in Marian devotion for representations of Mary's sorrows, Mary's lifelong care for her Son Jesus Christ.

Mater Dolorosa

Modeled after the  Chapel of the Archangel Michael in Kizhi Island of Karelia (Russia), with a few elements from the Chapel of the Holy Face.

The Chapel of the Archangel Michael was moved to Kizhi in 1961 from the Lelikozero village. It measures 12.0×3.0×11.0 metres and has a rectangular frame elongated from east to west and a two-slope roof. Above the entrance hall there is a belfry capped with a pyramid roof. The iconostasis of the chapel has two tiers and contains icons of 17th–18th centuries

![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Kischi_Kapelle.jpg/697px-Kischi_Kapelle.jpg)

Karelian Orthodox Chapel

The model was made for the ETW mod Imperial Splendour. It serves as a city model for the town of Hannover.
In the model itself are many historical buildings which once were located (and are demolished today) in Hannover as well as several drafts which were never built. 

I tried to represent the division between the old town, coming from the middle ages on the right with timber-frame and Renaissance houses and the new town ("Calenberger Neustadt") on the left which was built in the 17th century and where the townhouses of the nobility stood.

Most prominent on the right is the Marktkirche (Market Church). Outside the actual town you can see the Nikolaikapelle (Nikolai chapel) with its graveyard. Today the Nikolaikapelle is a ruin.

City Model for Hannover

A model of the prototypical gothic nave. This model is a synthesis of those found at Amiens, Chartres, Paris, and Reims. Featuring a wide central space flanked by two aisles and two rows of chapels. The flying buttresses are most similar to those at Chartres, while the roof's forêt closely resembles that of Amiens.

[Learn More](http://myleszhang.org/2017/05/16/amiens/)

Medieval Cathedral

This is a partial scan of the cemetary in Igualada, which was designed by Enric Miralles and Carme Pinos. Miralles himself died only a few years after the completion of the cemetary and is buried there.

The space captured is a kind of chapel that sits above the necropolis. It is adjacent to the cemetary's crematorium, which is now out of use.

The capture was assembled out of about a thousand photos taken with a Google Pixel 2 XL. The large gap in light levels between the exterior shots and the depths of the interior made this one difficult to capture well.

VR viewing is recommended!

Igualada Cemetery: Chapel

***Homo sapiens*** 
  
Location: Cro-Magnon, Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France. 
  
Age: 27,700 years B.P. 
  
Material: plaster cast. 

Dimensions: length, 125 mm; width, 132 mm; height, 72 mm.
  
Notes: RLA catalog no. 1979rp16 (cast).  Male mandible.  Discovered in 1868 by Louis Lartet.  Cast made by the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.  From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Model by Aidan Paul.

Homo sapiens (Cro-Magnon I) Skull (1979rp16-2)

The Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Saint Peter in York, commonly known as York Minster, is the cathedral of York, England, and is one of the largest of its kind in Northern Europe. The minster was completed in 1472 after several centuries of building. It is devoted to Saint Peter, and has a very wide Decorated Gothic nave and chapter house, a Perpendicular Gothic quire and east end and Early English North and South transepts. The nave contains the West Window, constructed in 1338, and over the Lady Chapel in the east end is the Great East Window (finished in 1408), the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the world. In the north transept is the Five Sisters Window, each lancet being over 53 feet (16.3 m) high.

Processed in Agisoft Metashape in August 2020 using frames from a youtube video.

York Minster (Cathedral Only)

Sculpture of an angel on Calvary in Eisenstadt. 

The Calvary in Eisenstadt is an artificially constructed mountain made of stones, interspersed with grottos and small chapels, depicting the Passion of Christ. The Calvary was commissioned by Prince Paul I Esterházy (1635-1713), who had been very impressed by the Calvary in Maria Lanzendorf near Vienna.

Engel

***Homo neanderthalensis***

Location: La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France.

Age: 56,000 - 47,000 years B.P.

Material: plaster cast.

Dimensions: length, 243 mm; width, 159 mm; height, 143 mm.

Notes: RLA catalog no. 1979rp15 (cast).  Cranium, from an almost complete skeleton known as La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 or “The Old Man,” was discovered in 1908 by A. and J. Bouyssonie and L. Bardon.  The remains were first reported by Marcellin Boule in 1913.  Cast made by the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.  From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Model by Madelaine Azar.

Homo neanderthalensis (1979rp15-1) - cranium

**Acheulean hand axe**

Location: Abbeville, France.

Period: Lower Paleolithic (before 300,000 years ago).

Material: flint.

Dimensions: length, 167.0 mm; width, 100.9 mm; thickness, 41.7 mm.

Notes: Catalog no. 518a2.  This specimen is part of a larger collection of artifacts that was acquired in 1929 by James Bell Bullitt during a tour of western Europe and later donated to the University of North Carolina.  Specimen resides in the North Carolina Archaeological Collection, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Model by Kathleen Brock.

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