Statues - Loggia dei Lanzi - Florence, Italy
| General Attributes |
DOI| 10.34946/D6C01K | |
| Project Name | Statues - Loggia dei Lanzi - Florence |
| Country | Italy |
| Status | Published |
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| Photogrammetry - Terrestrial | 9.58 GB | Canon EOS 5D MkII | DSLR |
| Background |
| Site Description | Located in Florence's Piazza della Signoria, this elegant open-air gallery served as a civic space where public ceremonies and government assemblies took place, symbolizing the republic's transparency and democratic values. Built between 1376 and 1382, its wide rounded arches represent early Renaissance architecture, contrasting with the adjacent Gothic Palazzo Vecchio. The structure demonstrates Florence's wealth and artistic ambition during the late medieval period. The loggia transformed into an open-air sculpture museum, housing masterpieces like Cellini's Perseus with the Head of Medusa and Giambologna's Rape of the Sabine Women. This collection makes it an essential outdoor gallery showcasing Florentine sculptural achievement.
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| Project Description |
Several statues were targeted for photogrammetric reconstruction, including:
- The Medici Lion (left, Vacca copy)
- Rape of the Sabine Women
- the Rape of Polyxena
- Hercules and Nessus by Giambologna (1599)
Hercules and Nessus
- Ajax Bearing the Corpse of Achilles
Abstract
Motivated by observations from recent earthquakes, and in an effort to understand the seismic response of culturally important statues, a methodology is proposed for an integrative approach to document culturally important statues, which combines both engineering parameters and visualization. Documentation includes surface and material, geometric and visual, and boundary condition surveys as well as three dimensional digital reconstructions. Reconstruction facilitates attainment of geometric and mass properties using data from terrestrial laser scanning and structure-from-motion three dimensional reconstruction. The proposed methodology is applied to a representative number (24) of statues in Florence, Italy using a field survey in 2011. The majority of the statues are determined to be freestanding on rough pedestals with high aspect ratios and limited motion restriction. Using the documentation and simplified characterization obtained from these studies, it is envisioned that the seismic vulnerability and response of statues may be estimated, knowing the statues’ locations and anticipated earthquake demands at the site (building or free-field).
From the article
Wittich, C.E., Hutchinson, T.C., Wood, R.L., Seracini, M., and Kuester. F. (2016). Characterization of full-scale human-form culturally important statues. ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000508.
Wittich, C.E., Hutchinson, T.C., Wood, R.L., and Kuester, F. (2012). Survey and Characterization of Culturally Important Statues in Florence, Italy. Structural Systems Research Project Report Series. SSRP 12/10. Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego. La Jolla, CA. | |
| UNESCO World Heritage Site | Historic Centre of Florence |
| Collection Date | 2011-08-31 to 2011-08-31 |
| Publication Date | 2026-01-26 |
| License Type | CC BY-NC |
| Model Information |
| Reuse Score | C - Non-Metric Model |
| Citation |
| Christine Wittich, Tara Hutchinson, Richard Lee Wood, Maurizio Seracini, Falko Kuester, Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3), Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative (CHEI) 2026: Statues - Loggia dei Lanzi - Florence - Photogrammetry - Terrestrial. Distributed by Open Heritage 3D. https://doi.org/10.34946/D6C01K |
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