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  • Rome is among the most thoroughly documented urban centers in the world.
  • Over the centuries, the city has been represented on paper and on parchment, in marble and in fresco. Not only do these depictions provide evidence about the city, but also they inform us about how it was understood across time.
  • The cartography for our geo-database is founded on three essential representations of Rome:  The earliest was created by Giovanni Battista Nolli in 1748; depsite the early date, it is uncannily precise. In 1901, Rodolfo Lanciani created a map intended to illustrate the location of the city’s ancient buildings. More recently, precise and high-definition satellite imagery like this from Bing provide aerial views of the city that should be more familiar to viewers.
  • By a technical process called geo-rectification, we have aligned these maps so they can be overlapped and be made to work in unison. We are now able to key into sophisticated GIS software and to geo-reference a vast amount of information that would not have been possible before the advent of this digital technology.
  • For example, we can mine information from Lanciani’s extraordinarily sophisticated Forma Urbis Romae.  In an earlier project, we digitally remastered Lanciani’s complex map.
  • Here we have exclude all ancient buildings, but retained the urban infrastructure of 1901, when Lanciani’s map was completed.
  • Here, for example, we have isolated topographic features and ancient Roman buildings. Some of this data is now known to be incorrect so it can be edited or removed as necessary.
  • The aim of this slideshow is to illustrate some of the tools of the Mapping Medieval Rome project. Let’s focus on two areas of the city, which serve as our case studies.
  • Our first case study is about a third of a mile in diameter and located just north of the famous Pantheon, which appears at the bottom and center of the image. This area—known as the Campus Martius—was densely inhabited during the Middle Ages. Just in the highlighted area one counts twenty churches, whose outlines appear in dark red.
  • The biggest and most important of these places of worship was the Pantheon itself, which had been rededicated to the Virgin Mary and the Martyrs at the start of the seventh century.
  • We envision that a user will be able to click on a building with a medieval history and access a database of information that is both textual and…
  • …visual. Here is a sampling of images that represent the Pantheon through the ages.
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  • Rome is among the most thoroughly documented urban centers in the world.
  • Over the centuries, the city has been represented on paper and on parchment, in marble and in fresco.
  • The cartography for our geo-database is founded on three essential representations of Rome.
  • Using GIS technology we have aligned these maps so they can be overlapped and be made to work in unison.
  • We are now able to key into sophisticated GIS software and to geo-reference a vast amount of information.
  • For example, we can mine information from Lanciani’s extraordinarily sophisticated Forma Urbis Romae.
  • Here we have excluded all ancient buildings, but retained the urban infrastructure of 1901, when Lanciani’s map was completed.
  • Here we have isolated topographic features and ancient Roman and medieval buildings.
  • To illustrate some of the tools of the Mapping Medieval Rome project let’s focus on two areas of the city.
  • Our first case study is  located just north of the famous Pantheon, which appears at the bottom and center of the image.
  • This area was densely inhabited during the Middle Ages. Just in the highlighted area one counts almost twenty churches, several towers, wells and pilgrimage itineraries.
  • Our second case study is the area near Santa Maria in Cosmedin, known as the Forum Boarium.
  • We can view this area using any number of cartographic backdrops. In this case, we are seeing G.B. Nolli's map of 1748, which we have aligned with Lanciani's cartography.
  • This part of Rome included a port by the river, a bridge and several religious and domestic structures all of which are known to have been operative in the Middle Ages.
  • Here we focus on the complex of Santa Maria in Cosmedin. To provide richer visualizations, we have overlaid a nineteenth-century survey of the building, which includes details like the pattern of the floor paving.
  • We aim to provide as rich a visual experience as possible. Users will be able to zoom into a single building and even explore its various strata. In this case the crypt is depicted along with a plan of the ground floor.
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  • Rome is among the most thoroughly documented urban centers in the world.
  • Among other maps, our geo-database includes high-quality satellite images of the city
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  • Over the centuries, the city has been represented on paper and on parchment, in marble and in fresco. Not only do these depictions provide evidence about the city, but also they inform us about how it was understood across time.
  • Lanciani's Forma Urbis Romae of 1901,
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  • The cartography for our geo-database is founded on three essential representations of Rome:  The earliest was created by Giovanni Battista Nolli in 1748; depsite the early date, it is uncannily precise. In 1901, Rodolfo Lanciani created a map intended to illustrate the location of the city’s ancient buildings. More recently, precise and high-definition satellite imagery like this from Bing provide aerial views of the city that should be more familiar to viewers.
  • and G. B. Nolli's 1748 map of Rome.
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  • By a technical process called geo-rectification, we have aligned these maps so they can be overlapped and be made to work in unison. We are now able to key into sophisticated GIS software and to geo-reference a vast amount of information that would not have been possible before the advent of this digital technology.
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  • For example, we can mine information from Lanciani’s extraordinarily sophisticated Forma Urbis Romae.  In an earlier project, we digitally remastered Lanciani’s complex map.
  • It is possible to view the layout of current and even older neighborhoods (rioni) onto any of our maps. In this case, we see the built fabric of 1748 Rome as surveyed by Nolli.
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  • If, at first impact, the richness of information offered by Lanciani is almost overwhelming, we can now highlight data pertinent to medieval Rome and exclude less relevant data
  • Here, a breakdown of land use in Nolli's time—built infrastructure, vineyards and private gardens—are color coded.
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  • Here, for example, we have isolated topographic features and ancient Roman buildings. Some of this data is now known to be incorrect so it can be edited or removed as necessary.
  • Provisional map of medieval objects mentioned in Richard Krautheimer's Rome: Profile of a City, 1980.
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  • For example, this map includes a few corrections or additions in purple.
  • Here we trace some important early-modern processional and liturgical paths.
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  • Here we have exclude all ancient buildings, but retained the urban infrastructure of 1901, when Lanciani’s map was completed.
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  • In this mock-up slideshow, we point our spotlights to two area of the city. The aim is to illustrate some of the tools of our project, Mapping Medieval Rome.
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  • The first case study is just north of the Pantheon (which appears at the bottom and center of the image). This area is known as the Campus Martius.
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Nick Camerlenghi received art and architectural history degrees from Yale University, MIT, and Princeton University. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art at Dartmouth College where he specializes in the study of Early Christian and medieval architecture, with particular interest in the city of Rome and the area of the Mediterranean. He is currently preparing a book on the architectural transformations that took place at San Paolo fuori le Mura from its construction in the fourth century to its destruction by fire in the nineteenth-century.

Previous projects

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Interactive Nolli Map Project

 

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Giuseppe Vasi’s Rome

 

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Rodolfo Lanciani
Digital Archive

 

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The Urban Legacy
of Ancient Rome

 

Lan

Forma Urbis Romae
(in progress)