Bargello, Florence, Italy
| General Attributes |
DOI| 10.34946/D6JP45 | |
| Project Name | Bargello, Florence |
| Country | Italy |
| Status | Restricted |
| Citation |
| George Bent, Dave Pfaff, Florence As It Was 2026: Bargello, Florence - LiDAR - Terrestrial, Data Derivatives - 3D photogrammetry. Distributed by Open Heritage 3D. https://doi.org/10.34946/D6JP45 |
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| LiDAR - Terrestrial | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Data Derivatives - 3D photogrammetry | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Background |
| Site Description | Construction of the Bargello appears to have begun in 1255 and by 1262 it functioned as the residence and meeting hall for the head authority of the city called the Capitano del Popolo. When the Palazzo Vecchio was built two blocks away (1298-1315), the Bargello then hosted a different official called the Podestà, a non-Florentine man invited periodically to preside over the Priorate for a set term. It came to be known, therefore, as the Palazzo del Podestà. In addition to the apartments designed for his use and the meeting rooms adjoining them, the building also contained prison cells to hold those people apprehended and, often, condemned to death for committing serious crimes of violence against people and the state. The Bargello served in this capacity until the prison was finally closed in the middle of the 19th century. A chapel dedicated to Mary Magdalene, the reformed sinner, was built on the north side of the piano nobile to address the spiritual needs of those about to die for their crimes. Damaged over time, the frescoes along the chapel’s four walls illustrate contain scenes from the legends of Mary Magdalene and John the Baptist, with representations of Heaven on the east wall and Hell on the west.
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| Project Description | Florence As It Was has multiple aims within its broad goal of recreating selected structures in the city as they appeared in the year 1500. The pointclouds and photogrammetric models we build certainly serve their purposes as visual portals into the past, but the translations of early modern descriptions, transcriptions of contemporary documents, and the creation of a database of people, places, and things weaves these images into layers of information that help us interpret what we see. Intended as a study tool (as opposed to a substitution for the real thing), this project provides users with a combination of the type of original source materials that historians of art and architecture in particular typically use when crafting scholarly works. Its multi-variances routinely force us to make choices and adhere to a list of priorities as we go. We have progressed deliberately and with an eye toward posting the most original portions of our work first, and then filling in the gaps later on. We have concentrated much of our attention on the physically and politically challenging work of securing permissions, traveling to Florence, and then using state-of-the-art technology to scan the most important structures in the city before editing and modeling those scans so that they reflect accurately the dimensions and color patterns of those buildings.
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| UNESCO World Heritage Site | Historic Centre of Florence |
| External Project Link | View exhibit |
| Collection Date | 2018-02-05 to 2018-02-09 |
| Publication Date | 2026-03-19 |
| License Type | Restricted |
| Model Information |
| Reuse Score | B - High-Quality Model without Georeferencing |
| Curator Notes | This dataset is restricted, to request access please consult the Florence as It Was Project
https://florenceasitwas.wlu.edu/
florenceasitwas@wlu.edu
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