Voltaire

Model of a monument for Voltaire. This is one of the models created which led to the famous marble monument. The monument is located at the Eremitage in St. Petersburg, a copper copy is at the Comedie Francaise (Foyer) in Paris, a plaster copy is at the County Museum of Art in Los Angeles. Part of the sculpture collection at the city museum of Berlin, Germany. The collection consists of 3.000 objects of which a third are portrait busts of famous Berlin artists, scholars, politicians and rulers. Model: The model is based only on 48 photographs taken from one angle in order to test the platform and RealityCapture. This results in some irregularities.. See the object in our database: https://sammlung-online.stadtmuseum.de/Details/Index/420970 More about Voltaire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire CC-BY-Attribution: Stadtmuseum Berlin | Oliver Ziebe