The Inopos

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**Collossal Bust Of Alexander The Great, Known As "The Inopos", Circa 100 B.C.** Scanned From The Original In The Louvre By Cosmo Wenman. Part Of My Series "3D Printed Portraiture: Past, Present, And Future," Www.Cosmowenman.Com/3Dppppf.Html, Shown At The Makerbot Exhibit At The Consumer Electronics Show In January, 2013. From *"Faces Of Power: Alexander'S Image And Hellenistic Politics"* By Andrew Stewart: *"It Is Clear That In Antiquity Alexander Was A Chameleonlike Figure Indeed, More A Paradigm Than A Person. For Not Only Was His Own Character Multifaceted And Contradictory, But His Achievements Evoked Wildly Divergent And Contradictory Responses From Those Whom It Touched. So He Swiftly Became A Cliché Or Rather A Set Of Clichés Or* Topoi *To Be Evoked In Images That Are Wildly Divergent In Character, Quality, Type, Provenance, Date, And, Apparently, Purpose.* *All This Points Less To A Hellenistic And Roman "Portrait" Of Alexander Than To A Complex And Multifarious Use Of His Image And Its Attendant Connotations That Extended Over Many Centuries. His Face Was The Most Influential In History."* Originally Thought To Represent The Cycladic River God Inopos, The Nearly One Meter Tall Fragmented Bust Known As *The Inopos* Is Now Accepted As A Portrait Of Alexander The Great. If The Full Figure Had Survived Intact, It Would Stand At Well Over Eight Feet Tall--God Scale. At The Louvre, The Imposing, Larger-Than-Life Figure Hides In Plain Sight, Largely Unnoticed, Staring Down At The Crowds That Flock To See The *Venus De Milo* Just Twenty Feet Away (Compare The Photos From The Louvre And Ces). I Scanned The Original In The Louvre In October 2012 Using Autodesk 123D Catch. Using Blender, I Digitally Restored Its Damaged Nose Using A Nose I Scanned From A Portrait Of Alexander At The British Museum. I Printed The Piece Full-Scale In Pla On A Makerbot Replicator2 And Reinvented The Print In Weathered Bronze With Alternate Reality Patinas ( Http://Alternaterealitypatinas.Com Coming Soon!). The Louvre'S Entry For This Piece: Http://Louvre.Fr/En/Oeuvre-Notices/Bust-Alexander-Great-Known-Inopos --Cosmo Wenman [Cosmowenman.Com](Http://Www/Cosmowenman.Com) [Twitter.Com/Cosmowenman](Http://Www.Twitter.Com/Cosmowenman)

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