Spatiando con gli Occhi: Delivering an Interactive 3D Reconstruction of 17th-Century Rome
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2025
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The Eurographics Association
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The publisher of Giovanni Battista Falda's great map of Rome ca. 1676 invites the viewer to stroll the streets with their eyes: ''spatiando con gli occhi per tutte le vie, piazze, giardini, et contrade della Città''. Falda crafted a printed version of the city that could be taken abroad allowing 17th-century viewers a virtual visit to Rome. They could ''walk'' every street, seeing the grandeur of the modern building programs of Urban VIII, Innocent X, and Alexander VII and the impact they were having on the urban environment of Rome. The Envisioning Baroque Rome project takes this virtual Rome into the modern era, allowing the viewer to virtually visit 17th-century Rome using XR technology. By combining extensive research, artistic rendering, and XR world building, we are recreating Falda's 1676 Rome one building and block at a time in 3D, using Autodesk Maya, 3DS Max, and Unity to create an interactive large-scale build. Our efforts to research every detail that Falda renders in his prints have resulted in precious insights into the priorities of the artist and his patrons, the construction programs in Rome, and relationships among artists and publishers.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:dh.20253279,
booktitle = {Digital Heritage},
editor = {Campana, Stefano and Ferdani, Daniele and Graf, Holger and Guidi, Gabriele and Hegarty, Zackary and Pescarin, Sofia and Remondino, Fabio},
title = {{Spatiando con gli Occhi: Delivering an Interactive 3D Reconstruction of 17th-Century Rome}},
author = {Mundy, Joanna and Halbert, John and Burr, Ian},
year = {2025},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-277-6},
DOI = {10.2312/dh.20253279}
}