Virtual rebuilding of ancient architecture as a researching and communication tool for Cultural Heritage: aesthetic research and source management

Abstract

Raffaello Sanzio realized for the first time that the ancient world, as it appeared to his eyes, was the faded echo of the richness which characterized it in the arts.

Today the technology allows to actualize Raffaello’s dream and to restore the appearance of the ancient buildings. It revolutions the cognition of the cultural heritage by the modern audience.

During our ten-year long experience in the communication of the cultural heritage we could deal with examples as Domus Aurea or as Ara Pacis; realizing popular videos, applications for kiosk in museums and software to manage data of archaeological excavations. All our works focus our method of research: the attention to the language, as instrument of aesthetic understanding, and the computerizing management of the fonts, as apparatus of studies and instrument of scientific validation of the reconstructions.