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

Model: MechaGodzilla from PUBG Mobile. Model ripped and rigged by tetTris11, re-rigged slightly and ported over to MMD by myself, improved emission maps for MMD by me.
Stage: Silverspoon City 

original 3d model by tetTris11 and MMDCharizard textures by tetTris11 and MMDCharizard
![](https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/7ff62b75-38f3-4a66-b4f5-d5e1c8c93d4d/dem2k1y-15128edf-fda1-4dea-ae7b-36c44e0dd73d.png?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7InBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcLzdmZjYyYjc1LTM4ZjMtNGE2Ni1iNGY1LWQ1ZTFjOGM5M2Q0ZFwvZGVtMmsxeS0xNTEyOGVkZi1mZGExLTRkZWEtYWU3Yi0zNmM0NGUwZGQ3M2QucG5nIn1dXSwiYXVkIjpbInVybjpzZXJ2aWNlOmZpbGUuZG93bmxvYWQiXX0.S3hHczvOgqTT1gTzjjN7OVz_uHoVr9D729iaF9MFPas)
![](https://img.gurugamer.com/resize/740x-/2021/05/23/mechagodzilla-4b96.jpg)

MechaGodzilla 2021

Just a joke model to curse your PC

Made based on a psx harry potter game (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)

Haggord (Hagrid HD Remake Joke)

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

The most famous of the Govan stones, the sarcophagus represents a rare monument type in early medieval Scotland prior to the 12th century AD. It was rediscovered in the churchyard by a gravedigger in 1856 and was moved into the church in 1908. It is decorated with a hunting scene, different arrangements of interlaced beasts, and six panels of interlace, some of which appear to be interlaced snakes. It is not known what the lid might have looked like, but two complete drainage holes in the base of the monument (and the worn surfaces surrounding them) suggest that the sarcophagus originally acted as a coffin for the remains of a royal saint, but later functioned as a reliquary. 

This was created as part of Dr Megan Kasten’s PhD, made available here: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/74266/. Created with Agisoft Metashape, edited in Zbrush.
While the download of this 3D model is free, if you are able please consider supporting the Govan Stones by donating to the [Govan Stones Appeal.](https://tghts.enthuse.com/profile)

The Govan Sarcophagus - Govan 1

More high-quality pictures on my artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1n8ZNX

Made this model to practise mesh baking, high-poly modeling and handpainted texturing - and the whole pipeline in generell! Ton of fun :)

Concept from Simon Stalenhags "Things From The Flood". I love this dude

Dot Matrix With Stereo Sound

A supersoldier I made for a game I am making.

Fund my game on: [Patreon](http://Patreon.com/Sihagames)

Helmet mesh from Udon-San. I retextured it to suit the model. Made using Blender and Mixamo.

SCI-FI SuperSoldier - Game-ready [ANIMATED]

V&A text: This is an image of Nandi, the sacred bull-calf. In Sanskrit Nandi means ‘joyfulness’ or ‘blissfulness’ and refers to the emotions experienced by a devotee in the presence of Lord Shiva. Temples dedicated to Shiva, the Hindu lord of creation and destruction, are found throughout the Indian subcontinent. An essential element in any Shiva temple is the image of Nandi. It occupies an axial position, focusing the attention of the faithful from the outer halls of the temple directly into its spiritual heart, the ‘garbhagrha’ (‘womb chamber’).
Late 16th century-early 17th century (made).

114 images, sony A600 gallery lighting, reality capture 1.1. Poorly captured ears, under foreleg and very shiny stone. Quite a reasonable model given that....

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O24787/nandi-figure-unknown/

Nandi Bull

Library of Celsus - Crowdsourced model made from 200 photos from several sources public avaible.

The Library of Celsus is an ancient Roman building in Ephesus, Anatolia, now part of Selçuk, Turkey. It was built in honour of the Roman Senator Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus completed between circa 114–117 A.Dby Celsus' son, Gaius Julius Aquila (consul, 110 AD). The library was "one of the most impressive buildings in the Roman Empire" and built to store 12,000 scrolls and to serve as a mausoleum for Celsus, who is buried in a crypt beneath the library in a decorated marble sarcophagus The Library of Celsus was the "third-largest library in the ancient world" behind both Alexandria and Pergamum.

Library of Celsus - Crowdsourced photogrammetry

I tried to copy a picture from artbook "Things from the flood"

colourdrafts(Simon Stalenhag scene)

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

**I am fed up with Sketchfab store's replacement and all my models will now be free. Any tips are appreciated, at paypal.me/pawprincess** 

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

A tyrannosaurus rex trying not to get thagomized in the face by a stegosaurus.

Dino Fight

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

Built around the skeletal remains of the Godzilla that attacked Tokyo in 1954, Kiryu was an advanced cyborg designed to defend Japan from the kaiju that frequently menace it, particularly the current Godzilla. Kiryu first saw action in 2003 when he was deployed to battle Godzilla when he surfaced at Hakkeijima. However, Godzilla's roar awakened the original Godzilla's restless spirit that was attached to Kiryu's skeleton, causing the machine to go berserk. Kiryu was recalled and his programming altered so this incident could never occur again, then was sent out against Godzilla a second time when he landed at Tokyo. Kiryu fought Godzilla to a draw, leaving him with a gruesome chest wound and himself losing an arm. Kiryu was rebuilt over the course of a year, and sent into combat with Godzilla again when he returned to Tokyo. Kiryu fought alongside Mothra and her twin larvae, and finally triumphed against his organic counterpart by reopening the wound on Godzilla's chest.

Kiryu - Millennium Mechagodzilla - Godzilla PS3

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)

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