Old Silver Venus

Francesca Fini, 2020 Virtual sculpture from 3D scan of an antique physical object original mapping: old painting and silver GLB file software: MetashapePro, Blender, Photoshop

The project starts from a plaster reproduction of the head of the Venus de Milo, purchased from a Roman junk dealer. The reproduction is a beautiful object of the early twentieth century and is therefore in fact an antique find in itself. A find that represents an older find, which in turn represents the timeless icon of classic femininity. The head was scanned with a photogrammetry device, then processed in a 3D environment and remapped with new imaginative, lush, and colorful textures, all deriving from my original freehand or digital drawings.