San Marco, Church and Cloisters, Italy
| General Attributes |
DOI| 10.34946/D67S31 | |
| Project Name | San Marco, Church and Cloisters |
| Country | Italy |
| Status | Restricted |
| Citation |
| George Bent, Dave Pfaff, Florence As It Was 2026: San Marco, Church and Cloisters - LiDAR - Terrestrial. Distributed by Open Heritage 3D. https://doi.org/10.34946/D67S31 |
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| LiDAR - Terrestrial | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Background |
| Site Description | A now-lost monastic complex run by a group of Silvestrine monks was renovated in the late 1430s under the supervision of Domenico Michelozzo, who in turn took his directives from Cosimo il Vecchio de’ Medici. This renovation coincided with the removal of the Silvestrines and their replacement by Dominican friars from the convent of S. Domenico in Fiesole, invited by Cosimo to occupy the new facility. The cloisters, chapterhouse, and perpendicularly oriented library/reading room were completed in short order, with the new facility consecrated in 1443 with an audience that included Pope Eugenius IV. Fra Angelico produced the altarpiece for the church’s high altar and then oversaw an intricate project whereby individual cells of friars, novices, and lay brothers were frescoed with scenes and visions that addressed the ritual behaviors of their inhabitants. S. Marco became the locus of religious zealotry and political acrimony at the end of the fifteenth century, as the firebrand preacher Fra Savonarola used the convent as his headquarters until his arrest, prosecution, and execution in 1497. His private cell, appointed today as something of a shrine, may be visited in the southwest corner of the cloister.
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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 | 2023-03-12 to 2023-03-16 |
| 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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