Abstract
The concept of using replicas as teaching tools and works of art in and of themselves is not new. Replicas of sculpture and other cultural heritage artifacts have been created for important or iconic originals for centuries, with these displayed in some of the most prominent museums around the world. The Chiurazzi Foundry is one workshop of note in the creation of replicas in the 19th century. A large number of these Chiurazzi replicas of statuary from Pompeii and Herculaneum, as well as other Roman and Greek sites, are displayed and housed at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. The Ringlings, of circus fame, purchased 50 authentic replicas from the Chiurazzi Foundry in the early 20th century. These bronze copies are still on display at the museum. With the rise of digitization and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the use for these physical replicas in education and accessibility looks increasingly to the educational space. Digital replicas hold the same value as the physical replicas and, in this way, the need to digitize these Chiurazzi sculptures for access and education is demonstrated. In the Fall of 2020, the Institute for Digital Exploration (IDEx) at the University of South Florida (USF) used digital photogrammetry for the purposes of generating a digital collection of the most representative Chiurazzi statues at the Ringling Museum. This paper discusses the best practices and the technical issues in digitizing large-scale bronze statuary and explores the methods for dissemination of a collection for public consumption.
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The authors are very thankful to the curatorial and conservation staff of the John and Mable Ringling Museum for their help in support in the development of the project and, in particular, to Dr. Sarah Cartwright (Ulla R. Searing Curator of Collections), Emily Brown (Conservator of Sculpture & Decorative Arts) and Kyle Mancuso (former Curatorial Research Fellow).
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Kraft, M., Kingsland, K., Hassam, S., Trapani, P., Tanasi, D. (2023). Virtualization of the Chiurazzi Sculpture Collection at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota, Florida). In: Rousseau, JJ., Kapralos, B. (eds) Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, and Image Processing. ICPR 2022 International Workshops and Challenges. ICPR 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13645. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37731-0_5
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