Basilica of San Miniato al Monte, Italy
| General Attributes |
DOI| 10.34946/D6959Q | |
| Project Name | Basilica of San Miniato al Monte |
| Country | Italy |
| Status | Restricted |
| Citation |
| George Bent, Dave Pfaff, Scott McAvoy, Florence As It Was 2026: Basilica of San Miniato al Monte - LiDAR - Terrestrial. Distributed by Open Heritage 3D. https://doi.org/10.34946/D6959Q |
| Data Type |
Size |
Device Name |
Device Type |
| LiDAR - Terrestrial | Not available | Leica RTC360 , Leica BLK 360 v1 , Leica BLK360 G2 | Time of Flight Scanner , Time of Flight Scanner , Time of Flight Scanner |
| Background |
| Site Description | The origins of this Romanesque church can be traced to 1012, when records suggest a construction project on the site. The simple design of the interior conforms to local traditions of ecclesiastical architecture. A rectangular nave, flanked by a single aisle on either side, moves from west to east in an interior darkened by thick masonry walls punctuated only periodically by slender monofora windows. A chapel constructed in the mid-15th century appears to the north. The 15th-century tabernacle at the nave’s end is flanked by stairways that create a split-level effect: Those moving down terminate in a crypt filled with columns, while those moving up lead to the half-walled presbytery, choir, and high altar. At the top of the stairs in the choir’s southeast corner appears a doorway leading to the sacristy, with frescoes dedicated to scenes from the life of St. Benedict painted in 1387 for the Alberti family by Spinello Aretino.
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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 | 2018-01-10 to 2025-02-24 |
| 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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