Santissima Annunziata, Florence, Italy
| General Attributes |
DOI| 10.34946/D6W30W | |
| Project Name | Santissima Annunziata, Florence |
| Country | Italy |
| Status | Restricted |
| Citation |
| George Bent, Dave Pfaff, Florence As It Was 2026: Santissima Annunziata, Florence - LiDAR - Terrestrial. Distributed by Open Heritage 3D. https://doi.org/10.34946/D6W30W |
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| LiDAR - Terrestrial | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Background |
| Site Description | Members of the Servite Order built the first church of SS. Annunziata in the third quarter of the 13th century, designing it in a simple basilican form. Within a hundred years the church had become a cult center due to miracles attached to a painting of the Annunciation on the contra façade. Piero de’ Medici commissioned an elaborate tabernacle to encase it at the end of the 1440s, inscribing on its entablature the statement that the marble alone cost him 4000 florins (the modern equivalent of roughly $10,000,000). Leonbattista Alberti redesigned the interior in 1469 and the project was completed in 1481. Leonardo da Vinci used one of the church’s chambers as a private studio in 1500-01 and organized a private exhibition of a now-lost drawing that drew a line of spectators that wrapped around the building. A collection of frescoes produced by the leading artists of Florence – including Pontormo, Rosso di Fiorentino, and Andrea di Sarto – adorned the walls of the narthex leading into the basilica by 1520.
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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 | 2023-05-15 to 2024-02-23 |
| 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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