Wooden Polychrome Sculpture from the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Depicts St. George and the Dragon. Late 15th c., Tyrol-region.
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/BK-NM-11363-A
The object itself consists of a main sculpture, aseparate base, and 14 loose wooden pieces that at some point were removed/broken off the main composition. All separate pieces were scanned in individually, which allowed for a digital reconstruction of the object’s original appearance.
A painting by Coen Metzelaar, painted in 1880, depicts the sculpture in its former location: the summer villa of Abraham Willet and Louisa Holthuysen in le Vesinet, just outside of Paris. In the painting, all the pieces were attached, and the painting had a gilded polychromy all over:
http://hdl.handle.net/11259/collection.37902
The sculpture and the separate pieces were scanned using an Artec Space Spider processed with InstaLOD Studio XL and animated in Blender.
Paul van Laar (Technical Art History, University of Amsterdam)
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