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NY Met to let French make 3D copies of two 16th-century sculptures

"Pietà with Donors" in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Dated ca. 1515, made in Biron, Dordogne, France. © Wikimedia Commons

Two 16th-century sculptures, jewels of French Renaissance art, have been on display since 1908 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. But thanks to modern technology and an unusual agreement, precise 3D copies will be made and installed in the French castle where the originals long resided.

The facsimiles plan is the fruit of a rare partnership between the Met, as the New York museum is known, and the Dordogne department in southwestern France.

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