Brunelleschi Pulpit - Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy
| General Attributes |
DOI| 10.34946/D6ZP4W | |
| Project Name | Brunelleschi Pulpit - Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence |
| Country | Italy |
| Status | Published |
| Download |
| Spatial Data | Download (Links to all available data types will be emailed) |
| Data Type |
Size |
Device Name |
Device Type |
| LiDAR - Terrestrial | Not available | Leica BLK360 G2 , Sony A7 RIII | Time of Flight Scanner , Mirrorless |
| Photogrammetry - Terrestrial | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Short Range Scan | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Background |
| Site Description | In the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, this wooden pulpit was built in 1443. It is believed to have been designed by Brunelleschi, but built by Buggiano. | |
| Project Description | A collaboration between CHEI, Editech, and students from the University of Florence's architecture program. A Multi-modal study involving LiDAR, structured-light, Photogrammetry, and thermography. Thermographic analysis was performed after rain, hoping to note moisture rising from the floor into the section of water-stained stone column, and crumbling risers supporting the pulpit. The study proved inconclusive as the influence of the sun erased any notable anomalies, but the dataset proved useful as a case study for 3D thermography optimization methodologies.
This dataset was part of an investigation, detailed here: Mcavoy, S. P, Seracini, M., Dvorshchenko, E., Antunović, V., Rissolo, D., & Kuester, F. (2024). Data Report: Brunelleschi Pulpit Preliminary Study Church of Santa Maria Novella Florence, Italy October 19th 2024. UC San Diego: Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative (CHEI) at Calit2. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/88t8h9jx
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| UNESCO World Heritage Site | Historic Centre of Florence |
| Collection Date | 2024-10-19 to 2024-10-19 |
| Publication Date | 2025-11-20 |
| License Type | CC BY-NC |
| Model Information |
| Reuse Score | B - High-Quality Model without Georeferencing |
| Curator Notes | Unfortunately the Artec Studio data is in a proprietary format. We export a derivative model, but are still searching for intermediary formats to enable the effective re-registration of this kind of data in open environments.
Thermography data is placed in the same download volume as the terrestrial photogrammetry. |
| Citation |
| Scott McAvoy, Maurizio Seracini, Elizaveta Dvorshchenko, Vanda Antunović, Dominique Rissolo, Falko Kuester, Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative (CHEI), Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) 2025: Brunelleschi Pulpit - Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence - LiDAR - Terrestrial, Photogrammetry - Terrestrial, Short Range Scan. Distributed by Open Heritage 3D. https://doi.org/10.34946/D6ZP4W |
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