Matthew Brennan

context: Galleria degli uffizi

The Uffizi is home to one of the most important collections of art in the world. In addition to its staggering Renaissance holdings, the corridors are lined with over 600 Ancient Roman marble works, many of which are busts and life-size free-standing sculptures.

Conservation and Digitization

The statues are housed in the Uffizi proper, the Palazzo Pitti and Boboli gardens, and at villas and storerooms in the environs of Florence. The project serves a dual purpose of updating the museum inventory of their ancient collections, and provides an invaluable catalogue of highly accurate 3D digital models for use by conservators, study by scholars, and public outreach application.

A new 3D digital Inventory

The project, a collaboration between Indiana University and the Galleria degli Uffizi, seeks to digitize all of the ancient marble sculptures and fragments in the form of fully-3D digital models.

the process

As a PhD student at Indiana University, I instructed the team of graduate students participating on the project in the practice and technique of 3D digitization and 3D modeling, and led the on-the-ground digitization efforts in Florence from 2015 to 2019.

for more information see:

http://www.digitalsculpture.org/florence/