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LUCRETIA 3D

3D digital sculpture, 2017

In the footsteps of Cranach exhibition, 2017

Lucas Cranach, unlike Dürer, did not use the optical and technological achievements of his age. His figures’ distortions seem to be halfway between the exaggerated forms of the Gothic age and the anatomically authentic/believable bodies of the Renaissance. His distortions are not uniform, as of El Greco’s, and not as subtle and unnoticeable as of Botticelli’s.

Cranach painted Lucretia in nearly 40 versions. I’ve transformed into 3D the Berlin version (painted in 1533) that was for me, in terms of form, the most exciting. Here the distortions won’t make the figure become grotesque or awkward. I wanted to translate the shape of Lucretia into 3D, keeping the original deformations. The task was even more exciting, since I had to rebuild the whole 3D figure on the basis of a single painting that’s distortions are in many cases incompatible with the spatial properties of a real figure.