Homer

*"The trouble with tech: You get tempted to do some seductive but counterproductive things, just because you can ... Hokey digital mashups, I believe, run counter to promoting deeper understanding of the works in @MetMuseum's collection."*—Lee Rosenbaum, *@CultureGrrl*
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This is my 3D capture of the [Skulpturhalle Basel's](http://www.skulpturhalle.ch) plaster cast of the Louvre's *[Imaginary Portrait of the Blind Homer](http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/imaginary-portrait-blind-homer),* a 2nd-century AD Roman copy of a Greek original.

There are many portraits of Homer that share similar idealized features. Rembrandt's anachronistic 1653 *[Aristotle with a Bust of Homer](http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/437394)* depicts a more finely detailed version than the Louvre's, but the two busts are similar enough that I was tempted to try a very rough estimate of the positions of Rembrandt's light sources and vantage point.

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