Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Residence, Florence, Italy
| General Attributes |
DOI| 10.34946/D63K5G | |
| Project Name | Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Residence, Florence |
| Country | Italy |
| Status | Restricted |
| Citation |
| George Bent, Dave Pfaff, Florence As It Was 2026: Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Residence, Florence - LiDAR - Terrestrial. Distributed by Open Heritage 3D. https://doi.org/10.34946/D63K5G |
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| LiDAR - Terrestrial | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Background |
| Site Description | Probably initiated in 1444, the Palazzo Medici was in use by the family of Cosimo il Vecchio de’Medici by the summer of 1459: As Benozzo Gozzoli prepared to execute frescoes in the family’s private chapel, Giangaleazzo Maria Sforzi arrived for a state visit and was received inside the palace. Domenico Michelozzo oversaw the palace’s construction, which famously included a symmetrically designed central courtyard, offices for employees of the Medici bank, and apartments for three generations of family members, including Cosimo, his sons Giovanni and Piero, and his grandsons Lorenzo and Giuliano. The addition of the private chapel on the ‘piano nobile’ was a rarity for the day.
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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 | 2023-02-06 to 2023-04-05 |
| 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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