Standing at the top of the acropolis in Athens as he has been doing for almost 2,500 years now, The Parthenon There remains an impressive spectacle. Not that these two and a half millennia were nice to the place: one of the most famous ruins in the ancient world is still, after all, a ruin. But he invites the imagination of visitors, filling the head of visions of the way she had to look back in the 5th century before JC, when it was a temple and a functioning treasure. A particular enthusiast, an Oxford archeology teacher named Juan de Laraspent four years The official project website.
Image of Juan de Lara / The Parthenon 3D
The materials promoting 3D parthenon, as it is called, especially underline an element: its statue almost 40 feet high of the goddess Athena Parthenos, better known mononymous under the name of Athena. The work of the famous sculptor Phidias, which also managed the rest of the sculptural decoration of the structure, it ended up costing twice as much as the building itself.
Although now lost for a long time, the statue of Athena was well documented enough for Lara to model all her details, to the folds of her golden dresses and the cracks of her ivory skin. During the Panatheaine Festival, which came every four years, the sun entered the Parthenon at the right corner to cause supernatural lighting of the goddess against the surrounding darkness.
Image of Juan de Lara / The Parthenon 3D
Of course, this effect was not accidental. Even if we consider that the creation of the Parthenon has been divinely inspired, we can better understand it as a man's work – and a work meticulously thought out of this. For old Greek visitors, Athena's lighting would have been improved by the placement of roof openings, reflecting water pools and reflective materials, whose original incorporation in space would be a surprise for most modern visitors. Currently, Parthenon 3D offers the closest experience we have to a parthennon revival machine as Iktinos phidias and architects and Callicrates initially planned. But as Lara research notesThe building also contained many incense burners, so that perfect realism is not achieved as long as odors can go through the Internet. Visit The 3D Parthenon site here.
Image of Juan de Lara / The Parthenon 3D
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