Longmen Binyang Central Cave
DIGITAL RESTORATION
Project Overview
The Longmen Caves complex is a UNESCO world heritage site located just south of the city of Luoyang, China. The Center for the Art of East Asia at University of Chicago is working in collaboration with partners at Xi'an Jiaotong University in China, and museums and institutions around the world, to create 3d digital restorations of the Binyang Central Cave at Longmen, for the purposes of preservation, study, and education. Expand the brief introduction below for some background on the site, or skip ahead to features detailing some of our ongoing digital restoration work on the Binyang Central Cave.
Large sections of the elaborate stone relief carvings from the Binyang Central Cave were destroyed or sold to museums in the early part of the 20th Century. This interactive feature explores each of these reliefs and what is known about their modern whereabouts.
Continue ReadingA documentary film by Hou Xintian exploring the digital restoration of the Empress Procession relief
View videoThe Empress Procession relief from Binyang Central Cave has been painstakingly recreated digitally by Professor Jia Zhuofei of Xi'an Jiaotong University
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