Sir Walter Raleigh - Cameo Brooch

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Summary Partial 3D scan of Bruno Lucchesi's Sir Walter Raleigh statue in downtown Raleigh, NC; Difficulty getting a complete scan of the hat from the top of the statue's head - it's eleven feet tall, not including the pedestal it stands on. The statue is located across from Salisbury Street in front of the entrance to the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts. It's become a public tradition to dress the statue up on different occasions throughout the year. http://q-artcode.org/sir-walter-raleigh-sculpture/ Bruno Lucchesi, sculptor and teacher born in 1926, is renowned for his mastery of the human form. He was commissioned to create the Sir Walter Raleigh statue in 1975 in his home town of Pietrasanta, Italy. The commission was seventy five years in the making, when a movement formed in the early twentieth century to create a statue as a memorial to Sir Walter Raleigh, a sixteenth-century English aristocrat known for being a poet, writer, soldier and explorer. North Carolina's state capital was named after him. The statue was dedicated in 1976 as part of the national bicentennial celebration. It is made from bronze and heroically scaled at eleven feet tall. Sir Walter Raleigh is on permanent loan to the City of Raleigh from the North Carolina Office of Archives and History. Update 7/22/14 - Smallest print test that still retains quality 42x60mm @ .15 mm about thirty-eight minutes;