The Inopos

**Collossal Bust of Alexander the Great, known as "The Inopos", circa 100 B.C.**



Scanned from the original in the Louvre by Cosmo Wenman. Part of my series "3D Printed Portraiture: Past, Present, and Future," www.cosmowenman.com/3DPPPPF.html, shown at the MakerBot exhibit at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, 2013.



From *"Faces of Power: Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics"* by Andrew Stewart:


*"It is clear that in antiquity Alexander was a chameleonlike figure indeed, more a paradigm than a person. For not only was his own character multifaceted and contradictory, but his achievements evoked wildly divergent and contradictory responses from those whom it touched. So he swiftly became a cliché or rather a set of clichés or* topoi *to be evoked in images that are wildly divergent in character, quality, type, provenance, date, and, apparently, purpose.*

*All this points less to a Hellenistic and Roman "portrait" of Alexander than to a complex a