Abstract
Abstract. The paper presents a practical approach to define a hypothetical virtual reconstruction of the ciborium and pergola of Monte Sorbo's Church. The high accuracy of archaeological fragments, digitally acquired, allowed to hypothesize the entire sequences of decorations of architectural elements and to define their geometrical rules. Starting from the acquisition to the 3d modelling phase, the proposed virtual reconstruction combines original fragments with their lost parts modelled in a digital environment.Digital technologies offer nowadays the great possibility to visualize and understand cultural heritage in a new and attractive way. Digital models and virtual reconstructions have a key role in encouraging and promoting the development of good practices for recording, documenting, and making accessible scientific processes beyond visual appearance. The term virtual reconstruction, within the project, is used to describe a procedure that consists of making a 3D model that reproduces a digital copy of the original, assembling digitally acquired fragments with elements philologically reconstructed following the evidence-based geometrical rules. This study aims to contribute to this growing area of research by exploring possibilities on digital integration of different 3d models to re-define a visual appearance of lost architectural elements.
Highlights
The tag property, that is a series of strings, allowed to manage the complexity of the virtual reconstruction process layering different type of 3D information associated with different tags: from the raw data to the visualisation of 3D integrations
The tradition of local studies assumes that today's church is built on the stratification of different planimetric installations starting from an earlier Roman temple or an Early Christian Church (VI-VII) that was already made reusing marbles such as columns and capitals, nowadays in the central nave, and that do not originate from the local Apennine geological formations and are thought to come from extra-regional sources
Regarding the marbles of the ciborium, in 2012 the existing fragments were relocated to panels, with standard dimensions of 207 cm. x 110 cm. x 9 cm., that are nowadays located in the left wall of the central nave
Summary
The tradition of local studies assumes that today's church is built on the stratification of different planimetric installations starting from an earlier Roman temple or an Early Christian Church (VI-VII) that was already made reusing marbles such as columns and capitals, nowadays in the central nave, and that do not originate from the local Apennine geological formations and are thought to come from extra-regional sources. The presence of a huge number of spolia, fragments, columns and capitals of diverse provenance and that belongs to different historical periods, suggests that probably the church changes many times over centuries. The presence of marble architectural fragments conserved inside the church presupposes a monumental sculptural complex consisting of a ciborium and pergola. The current ciborium is dated in 1442 and is supported by marbles columns with capitals that probably belongs to the ancient one.
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