Bigallo, Confraternity Hall, Florence, Italy
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DOI| 10.34946/D6859D | |
| Project Name | Bigallo, Confraternity Hall, Florence |
| Country | Italy |
| Status | Restricted |
| Citation |
| George Bent, Dave Pfaff, Florence As It Was 2026: Bigallo, Confraternity Hall, Florence - LiDAR - Terrestrial. Distributed by Open Heritage 3D. https://doi.org/10.34946/D6859D |
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| LiDAR - Terrestrial | 4.36 GB | Not available | Not available |
| Background |
| Site Description | The building of the Bigallo was founded in 1352 as the headquarters of the Misericordia, a Confratnerity dedicated to the support of the city’s destitute, with a particular interest in providing foster care for abandoned children. The open loggia on the northeast corner, facing the cathedral, invited residents to mingle in the shade during hot days and escape the elements on rainy ones. Inside the building’s ground floor were arranged Audience Halls and meeting rooms, while a larger dormitory upstairs (now a hotel) appears to have reserved for use by those receiving care from Confraternity members. The north face of the building was decorated with paintings dedicated to the preaching of St. Peter Martyr (ca. 1440) and a vignette of young mothers depositing and then retrieving children from foster care (ca. 1389). A large fresco inside the Bigallo depicts the Allegory of Misercordia, with a large woman fanning a shawl around the bodies of supplicants flanking her and an image of the city of Florence – complete with representations of the Baptistery and the half-built cathedral – as it appeared in 1342.
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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 | 2018-01-04 to 2018-01-05 |
| 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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