Casting the Parthenon Sculptures from the Eighteenth Century to the Digital Age

Cover page\nHalftitle page\nSeries page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nContents\nIllustrations\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\n	A technical introduction to plaster casts\n	A brief history of the Parthenon sculptures\n1 The Emergence of Fauvel and His Successors\n2 Plaster Casts, Elgin, and the British Museum\n3 Condition Studies and the Role of 3D Imaging\n	Mechanical stresses\n	Chemical reactions\n	Biological agents\n4 3D Imaging and the West Frieze\n	3D scanning of the West Frieze: structured light scanning\n	Data acquisition and processing\n	Image key\n	Benchmarks\n	Analysis of surface texture\n	The West Frieze of the Parthenon\n	Summary of areas scanned\n	Results of 3D analysis\n	Th e fi nish of the sculptures\n	Evidence of deterioration between the originals and the casts\n	‘Restoring’ the Parthenon sculptures through their casts\n	Other historical sources: drawings and casts\n5 3D Imaging and Cleaning the Parthenon Sculptures\n	Early conservation\n6 An Authentic Source of Evidence?\nClosing Remarks\nAppendix\nReferences\nIndex