Badia, Church and Cloisters, Florence, Italy
| General Attributes |
DOI| 10.34946/D6PC7F | |
| Project Name | Badia, Church and Cloisters, Florence |
| Country | Italy |
| Status | Restricted |
| Citation |
| George Bent, Dave Pfaff, Florence As It Was 2026: Badia, Church and Cloisters, Florence - LiDAR - Terrestrial, Photogrammetry - Terrestrial. Distributed by Open Heritage 3D. https://doi.org/10.34946/D6PC7F |
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| LiDAR - Terrestrial | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Photogrammetry - Terrestrial | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Background |
| Site Description | The home of the Benedictines in Florence, the church of the Badia has undergone a series of reconstructions since the completion of its first structure ca. 1000. The Romanesque building that stands across from the Bargello was demolished and rebuilt at the end of the thirteenth century, and then completely transformed again between 1627 and 1631. The current version, oriented in a north/south configuration (with the high altar in the south end), flipped the axis of the nave 90 degrees from its original design, which placed the high altar in the east end. The bell tower is an early fourteenth century construction, completed by 1330. The so-called Orange cloister to the southwest was frescoed in the late 1430s by an artist whose identity has been hotly disputed (Fra Angelico vs. Giovanni di Consalvo).
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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 |
| Additional Information | Learn more |
| Collection Date | 2023-02-13 to 2023-02-15 |
| Publication Date | 2026-03-19 |
| License Type | CC BY-NC-ND |
| 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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