This magnificent armour made [King Erik XIV](https://bit.ly/2XHLbZ0) of Sweden look imposingly triumphant. In true renaissance spirit, the motifs on the armour were borrowed from ancient myths, the characteristics of which lent themselves perfectly to the Swedish history and national symbols of that time.

The armour was probably made in [Arboga](https://bit.ly/2FQKrGy), Sweden, around 1562, from where it was sent to Antwerp in Belgium to be decorated by the goldsmith Elisaeus Libaerts. The opaque gilt ornamentation has been [repousséd](https://bit.ly/2xuxmy0) from the back and chased from the front. 

Perhaps the armour was worn by King Erik XIV on 2 October 1564 when, following a military campaign in [Blekinge](https://bit.ly/2KUVNNQ) in the South of Swedan, he returned to Stockholm with his military entourage. Whilst winding its way through the streets of Stockholm, the procession was showcasing chained prisoners of war from Denmark, a motif that can also be found on the armour.

The Parade Armour of King Erik XIV of Sweden

This is a 3D scan of a plaster cast of the sculpture ‘[Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_de_Milo)’ dated to circa 450 BCE.

The scan is made from the cast (ref. KAS434/1) in The Royal Cast Collection at SMK – National Gallery of Denmark.

This is a downscaled (ca. 10 mb) version. To read more about the 3D scans of casts in The Royal Cast Collection and download all the high ress 3D models go to: www.smk.dk/3d

If you produce new work with the model and want to share it with us, drop us a line at web@smk.dk

Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos)

Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs that ever lived. Everything about this ferocious predator, from its thick, heavy skull to its 4-foot-long (1.2-meter-long) jaw, was designed for maximum bone-crushing action.

This particular replica of T-REX's skeleton is on display in Knuthenborg Safaripark, Denmark. 

The photogrammetric capture has been done spontaneously, as a part of recreational visit to the park. 
Due to other participants of the visit not 'feeling for' photogrammetric capture, it had to be done extra-fast, resulting in a single 'loop' of photographs.

Capture time: <2min

Number of photos: 133

Software: Reality Capture


![](https://rigsters.com/sketchfab_img/tyrannosaurus_rex_3d_capture_rigsters.gif)
![](https://rigsters.com/sketchfab_img/Tyrannosaurus_Rex_skeleton_3d_scan_rigsters.JPG)

Feel free to tweak, modify and re-use it in your projects.

Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton

The Gislinge boat was a 12th Century CE working boat found near the village of Gislinge, Denmark, in 1993. Dendrochronological dating puts its date of construction at around 1130 CE. It was probably used for fishing and goods transportation, and by the signs of wear and tear must have been 50 years old by the time it sank. This reconstruction is based off the Gislinge Boat Open Source Project by the Roskilde Viking Ship Museum (@vikingshipmuseum) , which can be accessed here: https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/professions/boatyard/building-projects/gislingeboat-2016

The project included the construction of various different experimental replicas based on the original find, and the publishing of all the plans so that other people around the world could build their own replica! In that spirit, I'm offering this model for free :) Enjoy, and check out the Viking Ship Museum's project website!

Length: 7.7m
Width: 1.5m
Draught: 0.25m

Gislinge Viking Boat

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 bright blue glass boardgame piece is crowned with a ring of white bobbles. It is likely to be the King from a set used for playing a version of 'tafl' - a family of games played in Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Denmark and Sweden which are derived from the Roman wargame Ludus Latrunculorum. It was found during a community-led archaeological dig on Lindisfarne, organised by DigVentures and Durham University.

Read more here: https://digventures.com/2020/02/stunning-1200-year-old-glass-king-gaming-piece-found-on-lindisfarne/

1200 year old boardgame piece from Lindisfarne

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

This is a 3D scan of a plaster cast of the sculpture '[Discobolus (The Discus Thrower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discobolus))' made by sculptor Myron of Eleutherae dated circa 450 BCE. 

The scan is made from the cast (ref. KAS1549) in The Royal Cast Collection at SMK – National Gallery of Denmark. 

This is a downscaled (ca. 10 mb) version. To read more about the 3D scans of casts in The Royal Cast Collection and download all the high ress 3D models go to: www.smk.dk/3d

If you produce new work with the model and want to share it with us, drop us a line at web@smk.dk

Discobolus (The Discus Thrower)

This is a 3D scan of a plaster cast of the sculpture ‘[Apollo Belvedere](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Belvedere)’ attributed to the artist Leochares and dated circa 330 BCE.

The scan is made from the cast (ref. KAS353) in The Royal Cast Collection at SMK – National Gallery of Denmark.

This is a downscaled (ca. 10 mb) version. To read more about the 3D scans of casts in The Royal Cast Collection and download all the high ress 3D models go to: www.smk.dk/3d

If you produce new work with the model and want to share it with us, drop us a line at web@smk.dk

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

Download and texture this model as part of the Sketchfab Texturing Challenge. Find out how to enter here [LINK].

This is an optimized version of [this 3D scan](https://sketchfab.com/models/53082b5d6cef4c34a9701a2a24f58075) of a plaster cast of the sculpture ‘Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos)’ dated to circa 450 BCE. Optimized by [Shaderbytes](https://sketchfab.com/shaderbytes) for the Sketchfab #StatuesTexturingChallenge.

If you’d prefer to work from the original hi-poly scan, you can download it from the SMK Museum here: https://sketchfab.com/models/53082b5d6cef4c34a9701a2a24f58075

The scan is made from the cast (ref. KAS434/1) in The Royal Cast Collection at SMK – National Gallery of Denmark.

To read more about the 3D scans of casts in The Royal Cast Collection and download all the high ress 3D models go to: www.smk.dk/3d

Venus de Milo #StatuesTexturingChallenge [SMK]

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

The M1772 16 lødig flintlock pistol.
Produced in Denmark/Norway between 1772 and 1789.

More information at [norskevaapen.no](https://norskevaapen.no/?p=1342)

m1772 Flintlock

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

Made by Danish sculptor August Hassel in 1896

Broby Church - Denmark

https://www.360cities.net/image/broby-church-2-denmark

The Raising of Lazarus

**Edit:** [My final challenge entry here!](https://skfb.ly/6ysKL)

A second WIP for the [Sketchfab's texturing challenge](https://blog.sketchfab.com/sketchfab-texturing-challenge-classical-sculpture/)!

Based on "[Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos))](https://sketchfab.com/models/53082b5d6cef4c34a9701a2a24f58075)" and "[Doryphoros (The Spear Bearer)](https://sketchfab.com/models/2b213f98afa742a5880af130b4d4eddc)" by [SMK – National Gallery of Denmark](https://sketchfab.com/smkmuseum), both licensed under CC Attribution”

WIP - Exhibition room

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

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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