Ares

*"It makes no difference what men think of war... War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."*—Cormac McCarthy, *Blood Meridian*
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This is my 3D capture of the Skulpturhalle Basel museum’s plaster cast, “Head of Ares.” That 19th-century cast was molded from the Munich Glyptothek’s [2nd-century BC marble](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Head_Ares_Glyptothek_