Digital reconstruction and analysis of the Nari’s Monument in Florence. A Bartolomeo Ammannati’s Statue.

Around 1540, Bartolomeo Ammannati designed the tomb of Mario Nari, which was placed in a side chapel of the church of SS. Annunziata, Florence. Because of political reasons, the tomb was almost entirely destroyed in the 16th century. The only two sections that survived the demolition were the statue of Mario Nari and the statue representing an allegory of Victory. In 1945, these two statues were housed in the National Museum of the Bargello, in Florence. On the occasion of the celebrations of five centuries from the birth of Bartolomeo Ammannati, the two surviving statues became part of a virtual reconstruction aimed at investigating the original setup of Nari’s Monument. 3D digital survey and further photogrammetric survey have created the right documentation and model to start hypothesizing the original composition. The chapel, the original location of the sepulcher, was also surveyed using 3D digital equipment, allowing us to verify a match between our reconstructed model and the original space in which it once stood. Digital 3D models developed within a CAD program were the perfect tools to test different hypotheses and to contrast the gathered information with archival documentation related to the original setup of the monumental tomb. The paper summarizes the protocols used to complete the survey and to develop our hypothesis and presents the achieved results.