Winged Victory of Samothrace

Update 6/23/14: I used a compilation of photos of other people's prints of this model in a presentation to LACMA on February 3, 2014. Here's an adaptation of my presentation: * [3D Printing, 3D Capture, and Opportunities for Design Custodians](https://medium.com/@CosmoWenman/3d-printing-3d-capture-and-opportunities-for-design-custodians-7985097d2ac4).* Please share it with anyone you think might be interested — Thanks.

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*"No classical education is needed to appreciate the personification, nor is it hard to grasp the drama of the figure's action given its superb position--and this is so despite the absence of arms and head; indeed perhaps its maimed condition has helped make the life it retains seem more miraculous."*—Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, *Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900*
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An iconic beacon of martial glamour, *Winged Victory, the Nike of Samothrace* is widely considered Hellenistic sculpture's greatest masterpiece. It was made between 200 and 190 BC, and more than a century ago important works of sculptural art like it were reproduced in plaster to be bought, sold, and traded by museums, universities, art schools, and private collectors around the world. In 1891, high-fidelity, full-scale, nine-foot-tall plaster casts of *Winged Victory* could be purchased from the Louvre's own atelier for 300 francs.

The customs and commerce driving the plaster cast tradition largely [died…