Table Of ContentVisualizing Venice
Visualizing Venice presents the ways in which the use of innovative
technology can provide new and fascinating stories about places and times
within history. Written by those behind the Visualizing Venice project, this
book explores the variety of disciplines and analytical methods generated
by technologies such as 3D images and interoperable models, GIS mapping
and historical cartography, databases, video animations, and applications
for mobile devices and the Web.
This book is one of the first collections of chapters to integrate the theory
and practice of visualization technologies with art, architectural, and ur-
ban history. The chapters demonstrate how new methodologies generated
by technology can change and inform the way historians think and work,
and the potential that such methods have to revolutionize research, teaching
and public-facing communication.
With over 30 images to support and illustrate the project’s work,
Visualizing Venice is ideal for academics, and postgraduates of digital his-
tory, Digital Humanities, and early modern Italy.
Kristin L. Huffman is an Instructor in the Department of Art, Art History,
and Visual Studies at Duke University.
Andrea Giordano is Professor at the University of Padua and coordinator of
the Visualizing Venice’s 3D modeling team.
Caroline Bruzelius is the A.M. Cogoan Professor of Art and Art History
and a founder the Wired! Lab at Duke University and of Visualizing Venice.
Routledge Research in Digital Humanities
The Routledge Research in Digital Humanities series is an interdisciplinary
monograph series which publishes current research into the field of Digital
Humanities. The books in the series address methodological and conceptual
Digital Humanities issues and explain how the software or the techniques used
broaden the possibilities for Digital Humanities and their respective field.
In the same series:
Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence
Nicholas Terpstra and Colin Rose
Visualizing Venice
Mapping and Modeling Time
and Change in a City
Edited by Kristin L. Huffman, Andrea
Giordano and Caroline Bruzelius
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Contents
List of figures ix
Preface xii
KRISTIN L. HUFFMAN, ANDReA GIORDANO AND
CAROLINe BRUzeLIUS
Notes on contributors xv
Overview: the Visualizing Venice enterprise 1
CAROLINe BRUzeLIUS
PARt I
Introductory chapters 5
1 the role of digital visualization for the history of the city 7
DONATeLLA CALABI
2 Visualizing Venice: teaching, training, and imagining
a new kind of urban and architectural history 15
CAROLINe BRUzeLIUS
3 Visualizing Venice: developing a methodology for historical
visualization 20
ANDReA GIORDANO AND MARK OLSON
PARt II
Historical case studies 27
4 Buildings that never were: the unbuilt projects for the Civic
Hospital of Venice 29
INeS TOLIC (TRANSLATeD BY MAURA VeCCHIeTTI)
vi Contents
5 Architectural and urban change over time: the school, church,
and monastery of Santa Maria della Carità 36
eLeNA SVALDUz
6 Mapping change and motion in the lagoon:
the Island of San Secondo 43
LUDOVICA GALeAzzO (TRANSLATeD
BY JOHN FRANCIS PHILLIMORe)
7 Visualizing the treves botanical garden in Padua: from
documentary research to laser survey and 3D modeling 51
MARTINA MASSARO
8 Research on lost buildings in Venice: the cathedral
of San Pietro di Castello 58
GIANMARIO GUIDAReLLI (TRANSLATeD
BY TeODORA OTT)
PARt III
tools, technologies, and training 65
9 Visualizing Venice: a historical overview of the role
and application of architectural and urban modeling 67
COSIMO MONTeLeONe
10 the history of cities and historical geographic information
system (HGIS) 76
ALeSSANDRA FeRRIGHI
11 Digital technologies and exhibition culture: reactivating art
installations through virtual reconstructions 84
CHIARA DI STeFANO AND LAURA MOURe CeCCHINI
12 Interactive exhibitions: new interfaces for engaging
visualizations 92
MARK OLSON
13 Guidebooks and mobile applications: a new mode
of communication 100
VICTORIA SzABO
Contents vii
14 Digital art history: building a “model” for
student engagement 111
KRISTIN L. HUFFMAN
15 Visualizing Venice summer workshops for graduate
students and beginning scholars 118
VICTORIA SzABO
16 Visualizing Venice to Visualizing Cities: future horizons 128
KRISTIN L. HUFFMAN AND ANDReA GIORDANO
Conclusion 137
CAROLINe BRUzeLIUS
Appendix: teaching historical 3D modeling techniques:
the Sta. Margherita portal 145
HANNAH JACOBS
Index 149
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Figures
1.1 The central room of the Ducal Palace in Venice
showing platforms with 3D mapping projections onto
models of the lagoon in the years 1611, 1809 and 2014.
(“Water and Food” exhibition, 2015.) 10
1.2 Video projection of Jewish properties in Venice after the
opening of the gates in 1797. (3D model of egle Renata
Trincanato, Venice and the Jews exhibition, 2016.) 11
3.1 Reverse perspective for the reconstruction of the Scuola
Grande di San Marco and Santi Giovanni e Paolo.
(Created by Andrea Giordano.) 22
3.2 An example of 3D modeling and rendering of the Carità
Church before 1729. (Created by Marco Pedron and
Ludovica Galeazzo.) 23
3.3 Augmented reality at the Rialto Bridge.
(Created by Mattia Grosso.) 25
4.1 3D reconstruction of the area of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
and early Hospital structures. (Created by Isabella Friso
and Matteo Ballarin.) 30
4.2 3D visualization of the various projects for the Civic
Hospital including the Jona Pavilion and Antonio
Gelmetti’s design. (Created by Isabella Friso and Matteo
Ballarin.) 32
5.1 The video wall installation at the Accademia in Venice.
(Created by the VISU Lab at Iuav and LIM and LDR Labs
at Padua.) 37
5.2 Screenshot, detail of the video wall installation. 39
6.1 Digital reconstructions of the island of San Secondo in
1789. (“Water and Food” exhibition, 2015, 3D models by
Linda Condotta.) 47
6.2 3D video mapping project of the island of San Secondo.
(“Water and Food” exhibition, 2015, projection by
Cristina Barbiani.) 48
