7/8/2023 0 Comments Colossus statue![]() In 305 BC, Antigonus sent his son Demetrius to capture and punish the city of Rhodes for its alliance with Egypt. In the late fourth century BC, Rhodes allied with Ptolemy I of Egypt against their common enemy, Antigonus I Monophthalmus of Macedonia. In 357 BC the island was conquered by Mausolus of Halicarnassus but fell into Persian hands in 340 BC and was finally captured by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. The capital city, also named Rhodes, was built in 408 BC and was designed to take advantage of the island's best natural harbor on the northern coast. Since ancient times, the small Greek island of Rhodes has been a main intersection between the Aegean and the Mediterranean seas, and was an important economic center in the ancient world. Some mystery remains as to where it was really located and what happened after it was destroyed. Bearing a striking resemblance to the Statue of Liberty in the United States, the Colossus of Rhodes stood for less than sixty years before being destroyed by an earthquake. The last of the seven wonders to be completed, it was a statue built to thank the gods for victory over an invading enemy. The team was led by Francesco Cigognetti, Factum's Technical Director.The Colossus of Rhodes was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the most ambitious and tallest statue of the Hellenistic period. Juan Carlos Arias, Angel Jorquera, Miguel Hernando, José Menéndez, Mari Pascual, Aniuska Martin, Charlie Westgarth, Pedro Salafranca, Florencio Martínez and Silvia Álvarez were joined by Javier Botella, Mar García, Monserrat Fornés, Guillermo Mugica and Raul Candil. ![]() The scale of the project involved more than half of the Factum team working on different sections of the sculpture in different areas of the workshop. The recreated sections of the body were made in polyurethane, coated in several layers of resin mixed with marble powder and mica, to achieve a clean neutral marble-white colour. The cloak was made in milled polystyrene, coated with acrylic resin mixed with bronze powder, over which a distressed gold foil gilding was applied. The result was perfect facsimiles of the original fragments. The surface was coated with a custom gesso mix and painted to resemble the original marble, weathered by the exposure to the elements. ![]() The recorded digital data of each fragment was rematerialised as 1:1 3D prints, which were used to make positive casts in reinforced resin. It was decided to visually distinguish the facsimile fragments from the digitally reconstructed body and cloak. In May 2022, the work of digital mediation into physical form began in Factum's workshop. The fragments in a digital environment and the recreated body and cloak © Irene Gaumé for Factum Foundation The high-resolution data and 3D models of each fragment were given to the museums responsible for the objects as part of the condition monitoring of the sculptures.
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