Lion Crushing a Serpent (1832)
by Antoine-Louis Barye (1796 - 1875)

Although his contemporaries criticized his style and his choice of animal subjects, Barye is today esteemed as the founder of the Parisian animaliers.
The noble lion, representing the new King and the people of France, is shown in a triumphant struggle against the serpent, symbolizing Charles X (reigned 1824–1830) and the ousted Bourbon dynasty. The pair additionally suggests a celestial sanction for Louis-Philippe’s reign by alluding to the constellations of Leo (the lion) and Hydra (the sea serpent), which “ruled the heavens” during the days of the July Revolution (July 27-30, 1830).

![](http://rigsters.com/sketchfab_img/lion_preview.jpg)

The scanned sculpture is a copy made by Guy Hain, who is a French art forger who produced number of fake bronze sculptures.
The Lion is located by the entrance of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.

Lion Crushing a Serpent

In Virgil, Laocoön was a priest of Poseidon who was killed with both his sons after attempting to expose the ruse of the Trojan Horse by striking it with a spear. In Sophocles, on the other hand, he was a priest of Apollo, who should have been celibate but had married.

This particular sculpture was made by the unknown artist and is a copy of the original work. 

3D scanned using photogrammetry in Hans Tausens Park in Copenhagen. Capturing of the scupture was done by 4 people/4 cameras by jointly dancing around the sculpture.

 Reconstructed in Reality Capture from about 1000 images. 

![](http://rigsters.com/sketchfab_img/laocoon_3dscan-rigsters.jpg)

Laocoon and His Sons

The Thinker (French: Le Penseur) is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin.
Rodin first conceived the figure as part of his work The Gates of Hell commissioned in 1880, but the first of the familiar monumental bronze castings did not appear until 1904.
A bronze cast of the sculpture can be found in the garden of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.
The museum has a unique Rodin collection with a total of 34 sculptures, commissioned directly from the artist himself in the years 1900-1914, including well-known and monumental works.

3D scanned in 2017 using Photogrammetry from about 700 images.

![](https://rigsters.com/sketchfab_img/thinker-rodin-3D-scan-rigsters.jpg)

The Thinker by Auguste Rodin

The Three Graces (1813-1814), Antonio Canova (?) (1757-1822), Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta (now ReMake) from AutoDesk.

The Three Graces, celebrated in classical literature and art, were the daughters of Jupiter (or Zeus in Greek mythology), and companions to the Muses. Thalia (youth and beauty) is accompanied by Euphrosyne (mirth), and Aglaia (elegance).It was commissioned from Antonio Canova by John Russel, 6th Duke of Bedford, who visited the sculptor in his studio in Rome in 1814, and was captivated by the group of the Three Graces which Canova had carved for the Empress Josephine, the estranged wife of Napoleon Bonaparte. She had died in May of that year, and the Duke offered to buy the group from Canova, but Josephine's son claimed it, and that version is now in the Hermitage, St Petersburg.

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The Three Graces

This colossal statue of the Nile was found in 1513 in Campo Marzio where it was probably part of the decoration of the Iseo Campense, dedicated to the Egyptian deities Isis and Serapis. The river is shown as a venerable old man stretched out on his side with a cornucopia of fruit in his left arm and ears of wheat in his right hand. Egypt is represented by the presence of a sphinx. The scene is enlivened by sixteen children who allude to the sixteen cubits of water by which the Nile rises for its annual flood.
[museivaticani.va](http://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/braccio-nuovo/Nilo.html)

This bronze cast was made after a Roman marble statue in the Musei Vaticani, Rome and donated to the city of Copenhagen by the Albertina Foundation.

Photogrammetric 3D reconstruction was done from about 3000 images.
>1 billion polys raw model

![](https://rigsters.com/sketchfab_img/nile-photogrammetry-capture_rigsters.gif)
 ![](https://rigsters.com/sketchfab_img/nile-statue-by-rigsters.jpg)

Nile

# Happy Holidays to Sketchfab Community!

Enjoy this wintery photogrammetry scan from Copenhagen :)

In the King's Garden you can find many sculptures, one of them is this beautiful Deer Group by Arthur Jacques Le Duc (1848-1918). It was bought in 1910 by brewer Carl Jacobsen and erected the same year. 

![](https://rigsters.com/sketchfab_img/group-of-deers_rigsters2.gif)

Deer Group - Snow Globe

A 3D scan of a scultupre Seated Lion by Antoine-Louis Barye / Alexis Rudier Fondeur (Paris) 1848. 
Found by the entrance of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen.
![](http://rigsters.com/sketchfab_img/barye_lions_rigsters.jpg)

Seated Lion

Bronze statue Apollo Belvedere, H. C. Orsted's Park, Copenhagen, Denmark

Casting of a Roman sculpture, copied from a Greek original, erected in the 1880s. Donated by brewer and art aficianado Carl Jacobsen, founder of the Carlsberg breweries.

![](http://rigsters.com/sketchfab_img/apollo-belvedere-3dscan-rigsters.jpg)

Apollo Belvedere

A Valkyrie riding a horse and carrying a spear is located in Churchill Park in the northern part of Copenhagen. 

by Stephan Sinding

![](http://rigsters.com/sketchfab_img/valprev.jpg)

Valkyrie Sculpture

The lion of Goddess Ishtar, Nye Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta.

1-3 The lshtar Gate in Babylon Nebuchadnezar (604-562 BC), the King of Babylon, started a series of ambitious building projects including the richly decorated lshtar Gate. A long processional avenue linked the sacred gate to the temple of the city god Marduk and his famous temple tower, known from the Bible as the Tower of  Babel. The facades of the lshtar Gate were decorated with reliefs in glazed tile, representing a dragon, Marduk's emblem, and a bull symbolising the weather god Adad. The processional route away
from the city was decorated with lions, the animals of Ishtar, goddess of love and war, They were to guard against advancing enemies, as is indicated by
the name ofthe gateway: Ishtar conquers its enemy.

The lion of Goddess Ishtar

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Ford-Vairogs was a Latvian car manufacturing plant, created as a partnership between the vehicle builder Vairogs and Ford Copenhagen, creating Ford’s Latvia branch. They made vehicles in the 1930s and closed down in 1940 when the second World War reached Latvia.

This new updated version is a re-work of my older model.

FREE 1938/39 Vairogs v.2 (new version)

Bronze sculpture by Johannes C. Bjerg and Poul Holsøe, dating 1934.
Sculptue acts as a center piece of a fountain in Hans Tausens park in Copenhagen.
![](http://rigsters.com/sketchfab_img/artemis-3d-scan-compare-rigsters.jpg)

Artemis Fountain

Author Hans Christian Andersen, known as H.C. in Denmark, has been immortalized next to Copenhagen's City Hall. 
Already in 1936 there was a proposal for a statue of Hans Christian Andersen on the City Hall square. 
In 1937 Utzon-Frank won a competition for a memorial for the poet. 
However, the statue was not finished by the artist's death in 1955, and it was Luckow-Nielsen who has taken over.

![](https://rigsters.com/sketchfab_img/hans-christian-andersen-3d-scan-rigsters.jpg)

Hans Christian Andersen

This is not the original "La Danse" of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, but a copy by Jean Juge in the façade of Opera Garnier in Paris, while the original one is in Orsay Museum since 1988. There were models of "La Danse" in Sketchfab, like jks_rnr's one (https://skfb.ly/CAOJ) - the very same model in Opera, or Geoffrey Marchal's one from Copenhagen, Denmark  (https://skfb.ly/FzGu). Nevertheless, there is a pleasure to take photos myself. 65 photos of 24MPixel are taken in Sunday morning the July 26th, 2015 with my Sony A6000 and 19mm prime lens. I like to add some context, so there is pedestal and stair of the Opera.

There is a presentation from Khan Academy about the sculpture : https://youtu.be/3ZGmMTNyW0k

Comparing to the model of  jks_rnr uploaded several months ago, there is one  thumb missing (for real) in a hand of a nymph, what's a pity.

Another chef d'oeuvre of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Fontaine de l'Observatoire in Paris: https://skfb.ly/DVZK (downloadable now)

"La Danse" in Opera House of Paris

Discobolus (head modern) from Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli Myron. Greek, 460-450 BC (Roman copy). Height: 155 cm. Vatican, Sala della Biga. Inv. 2346. The Royal Cast Collection (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta (now ReMake) from AutoDesk.

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Discobolus

Marcus Aurelius from the equestrian statue in the Capitol, known before 1187. Roman, 170-180 AD Rome, Museo Capitolino. The Royal Cast collection (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta (now ReMake) from AutoDesk.

Marcus Aurelius 26 April 121 – 17 March 180 AD) was Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD. He ruled with Lucius Verus as co-emperor from 161 until Verus' death in 169. Marcus Aurelius was the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors. 
During his reign, the Empire defeated a revitalized Parthian Empire in the East: Aurelius' general Avidius Cassius sacked the capital Ctesiphon in 164 AD. In central Europe, Aurelius fought the Marcomanni, Quadi, and Sarmatians with success during the Marcomannic Wars, although the threat of the Germanic tribes began to represent a troubling reality for the Empire. A revolt in the East led by Avidius Cassius failed to gain momentum and was suppressed immediately. (ref Wikipedia)

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Marcus Aurelius

Adonis (A53), 1887, Executed by August Saabye after Thorvaldsen's original plaster model 1808, Marble, height: 186 cm. Thorvaldsen Musem (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with ReMake and ReCap Pro from AutoDesk.

Adonis is the most handsome and sought-after young man in Greek mythology, but his birth was defiled in that he was born as the son of a woman called Myrrha, who had had an incestuous relationship with her father. As a punishment, Myrrha was changed into a tree – the myrrh tree. And when the appointed time had passed, the bark of the tree burst and the infant Adonis came into the world. In a certain sense, Adonis was doomed from the start, and he was indeed only quite young when he was killed by a wild boar during a hunt. We can see the tree on which he is supporting himself and the dead hare as references to his birth and death respectively. 

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Adonis (A53)

Leda and the Swan, Rome, lst century A.D. copy of a Greek, original from c. 370 B.C., Marble, Nye Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta.

Leda holds the swan against her thigh. In fact the swan is the god Zeus himself in disguise. One issue of this “affair” was Helen. She sprung from a swan’s egg and became the cause of the Trojan war.

Leda and the Swan

Young roman as Asklepios, God of Medicine, from Formiae in Campina, 2nd century BCE, marble. Nye Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with ReMake and ReCap Pro from AutoDesk.

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Young roman as Asklepios

Alexander the Great Sets Fire to Persepolis, Relief in marble. Executed in 1865 by Brynjulf Larsen Bergslien and Christian Constantin Olsen under the supervision af H.W. Bissen, after Thorvaldsen’s original model from 1832. (A 514). Thorvaldsen Museum (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta (now ReMake) from AutoDesk.

In Thorvaldsen’s work, Alexander the Great is mainly associated with the  so-called Alexander Frieze from 1812. What is portrayed here is a rather different aspect of Alexander’s personality: In the Alexander Frieze, Alexander arrives at Babylon as a peace-loving hero - indeed, as a god. In this relief, Alexander is drunk, and is allowing himself to be tempted by his mistress to carry out a terrible deed, namely, to set fire to the Persians’ capital city, Persepolis. Among the other figures, we can see Alexander’s friend Parmenio, who is attempting to restrain him; while on the far left a Persian can be seen leaving in despair.

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Alexander the Great Sets Fire to Persepolis

Apollo, Rome, 150 CE, marble, restored in 1790 CE. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen, Denamrk). Made with ReMake and ReCap from AutoDesk.

The god Apollo is standing with his lyre. The holy snake, python, is wound around the tree trunk on which is written, in Greek:"Apollonios made it."

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Apollo

This is a 3D model of a post-antique marble statue by Bertel Thorvaldsen in The Royal Collection of Paintings and Sculptures at the Statens Museum for Kunst, in Copenhagen,  Denmark. The statue depicts Venus (Aphrodite), the Roman goddess of love, holding an apple. This apple represents the prize in the myth [The Judgment of Paris](www.theoi.com/Olympios/JudgementParis.html). The contrapposto figure looks down at the apple in her right hand. The left hand holds a cloth and rests upon a tree trunk.

**Bibliography:** [Statens Museum for Kunst](https://collection.smk.dk/#/en/detail/KMS6004)

# Ancient World 3D
This model posting is part of [Ancient World 3D](https://exhibits.ulib.iupui.edu/aw3d/items/show/11), a project that provides curated 3D open access conteforClassical Studies. The [original model was posted by Statens Museum for Kunst](https://mmf.io/o/104928). This entry was composed by Rachel Moore (Dr. Elizabeth Thill, advisor, Cheyenne Eversole, curator).

100.DB.11 Venus Apple Thorvaldsen

Herakles from Hadrians villa in Tivoli Skopas. Greek, mid 4th century BC, Rome copy, Malibu, J.p. Getty Museum. The Royal Cast Collection (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta (now ReMake) from AutoDesk.

Heracles , born Alcaeus or Alcides, was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson and half-brother (as they are both sired by the god Zeus) of Perseus. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae. In Rome and the modern West, he is known as Hercules. Many popular stories were told of his life, the most famous being The Twelve Labours of Heracles.

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Herakles

The Capitoline wolf (ref 837),  Etruskisk 450 BC, in Rome in front of the Lateran before 1000, to the Capitol Hill since 1471 Rome, Palazzo Conservatori In. 1181, The Royal Cast Collection (Copenhagen, Denmark). Made with Memento Beta (now Remake) from Autodesk.

The Capitoline Wolf (Italian: Lupa Capitolina) is a bronze sculpture of a she-wolf suckling twin human infants, inspired by the legend of the founding of Rome. According to the legend, when Numitor, grandfather of the twins Romulus and Remus, was overthrown by his brother Amulius, the usurper ordered the twins to be cast into the Tiber River. They were rescued by a she-wolf who cared for them until a herdsman, Faustulus, found and raised them. The Capitoline Wolf has been housed since 1471 in the Palazzo dei Conservatori on the Campidoglio (the ancient Capitoline Hill), Rome, Italy. (Wikipedia)

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