Santa Croce, Church and Cloisters, Florence, Italy
| General Attributes |
DOI| 10.26301/bhkm-1y77 | |
| Project Name | Santa Croce, Church and Cloisters, Florence |
| Country | Italy |
| Status | Restricted |
| Citation |
| George Bent, David Pfaff, Micky Brown, Scott McAvoy, Florence As It Was 2023: Santa Croce, Church and Cloisters, Florence - LiDAR - Terrestrial, Photogrammetry - Terrestrial. Distributed by Open Heritage 3D. https://doi.org/10.26301/bhkm-1y77 |
| Data Type |
Size |
Device Name |
Device Type |
| LiDAR - Terrestrial | Not available | Leica BLK 360 v1 | Time of Flight Scanner |
| Photogrammetry - Terrestrial | Not available | Nikon D610 | DSLR |
| Background |
| Site Description | For many years the largest church in western Christendom, the basilica of S. Croce was initiated in 1295 as an expansion of two earlier structures that housed a community of Franciscan friars as early as 1212. The thirteen burial chapels and large Cappella Maggiore are original to the design and seem to have been claimed by important local families by 1320. The unvaulted nave (with bare beams signifying the poverty of the Order) was continued westward in stages during the century and was complete by 1400. An intense period of decorations began by about 1315, beginning with the project executed by the workshop of Giotto to paint the walls of the Bardi Chapel (to the immediate right of the high altar). This was followed by a second project undertaken by his team in the Peruzzi Chapel, others by his disciples Taddeo Gaddi (in the Baroncelli Chapel) and Maso di Banco (the so-called Bardi di Vernio Chapel), and still more by artists working in the second half of the fourteenth century (in the Cappella Maggiore, Castellani Chapel, and Rinuccini Chapel in the sacristy). Michelangelo’s tomb, designed in the late 1560s and early 1570s by a collection of artists led by Giorgio Vasari, may be seen just inside the south portal of the façade, while Donatello’s Annunciation appears a few bays further down. The free-standing Pazzi Chapel, built for the family that would conspire to assassinate the heads of the Medici family, was commissioned in the early-1430s and completed by 1478. The authorship of the chapel’s design has been hotly debated, with the names of both Filippo Brunelleschi and Domenico Michelozzo posited by specialists.
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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. | |
| UNESCO World Heritage Site | Historic Centre of Florence |
| Additional Information | Learn more |
| Collection Date | 2019-02-22 to 2025-02-17 |
| Publication Date | 2023-12-30 |
| License Type | CC BY-NC-SA |
| Model Information |
| Reuse Score | B - High-Quality Model without Georeferencing |
| Curator Notes | Updated models are available through the Florence as It Was Project
https://florenceasitwas.wlu.edu/
florenceasitwas@wlu.edu
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| Entities |
| Contributors | George Bent, David Pfaff, Micky Brown, Scott McAvoy, Florence As It Was |
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