A RE-PAINTED AMAZON

This paper describes an ongoing project to digitally record, reconstruct and repaint a 2000-year-old painted Roman statue from Herculaneum, Italy. The paper considers the archaeological potential for extremely detailed laser scanning and digital recreation of Roman statuary, and visualisation within a physically accurate context. It focuses on the archaeological significance of the emerging technologies employed and their potential to illuminate our understanding of concepts such as Roman aesthetics and the impact of spatial context on perception of statues.

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Graeme Earl

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Publication date: July 2009

Publication date (Print): July 2009

Pages: 20-29

Affiliations

[1 ]Archaeological Computing Research Group

School of Humanities

University of Southampton

Southampton

UK

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/archaeology/acrg/

[2 ]The Digital Laboratory, University of Warwick, UK

[3 ]Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, UK

[4 ]Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2009.5

SO-VID: ef742699-a325-4980-8999-9f4e92dc6041

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2009)

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 6 - 8 July 2009

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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A RE-PAINTED AMAZON

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