Digital Hadrian’s Villa Project: Paradata
Site Antinoeion
Name of person filling out form Matthew Brennan
Role of person filling out form 3D modeler
Date July 27, 2012
File format of 3D model AutoCAD DWG / 3D Studio Max
Consultants Gismondi
Plastico
Guidobaldi,
Opus sectile
Mangurian-
Ray
drawings
Wall survey Ytterberg
Plan
Chiappetta
De Franceschini
Giuliani
Macaulay-Lewis
Mari
Ytterberg
Furnishings
Type Name Source Changes Consultants
Statue
(room 7)
Antinous-Osiris Cast in British Museum
based on original in
Vatican Museums
Polychromy
restored
Bernard
Frischer
Statues in
porch (5)
Egyptian telamones (“i
Cioci”)1
3D model purchased
from Turbosquid.
Originals are in the
Vatican Museums.2
Textured with red
granite
Bernard
Frischer,
Zaccaria
Mari
Obelisk Pincian Obelisk
(Rome)
Obelisk in Villa
Borghese, Rome.
Zaccaria
Mari
Bibliography:
Mari, Z. “L’Antinoeion di Villa Adriana: risultati della prima campagna di scavo,” RendPontAcc 75 (2002-2003), pp.
145-185.
Mari, Z. “L’Antinoeion di Villa Adriana: risultati della seconda campagna di scavo,” RendPontAcc 76 (2003-2004), pp.
263-314.
Mari, Z. “La tomba-tempio di Antinoo a Villa Adriana,” Atti e memorie della Societä Tiburtina di Arte e Storia 78
(2005), pp. 125-140.
Mari, Z. and S. Sgalambro. “The Antinoeion of Hadrian‟s Villa: Interpretation and Architectural Reconstruction,” AJA
111 ( 2007), pp. 83-104.
Mari, Z., “Antinoo a Villa Adriana,” in Antinoo. Il fascino della bellezza, edited by M. Sapelli Ragni (Milan 2012), pp.
78-91.
1 Z. Mari 2012: 87 has revived the idea that the two telamones represented Osiris-Antinoos.
2 Vatican Museums, inv. 196, 197.
Antinoeion Model Paradata: By Matthew Brennan. Last revised March 18 2012
Model - Modeled according to Michael Ytterberg’s plan, which was used along with Zaccaria Mari’s sections, elevations, details, and own notes. Site photos were also used, to the extent that they were useful. Axonometric drawing used:
Section used:
Axonometric plan:
Modeling was straightforward given the clear plans and scholarly reconstructions above.
Texturing:
Texturing was carried out by the IDIA Lab according to instructions by Zaccaria Mari and
Matthew Brennan.
Zaccaria Mari’s notes on the Antinoeion follow (translated by Bernard Frischer):
On the walling of the two smaller temples:
“The walling in blocks on the sides of the temples ought to be perfectly isodomic,
as can be seen in fig. 3 of the AJA article, and white, because they were made of
Parian marble. In short, the temples were completely of white marble (even the
columns), except for the podia.”
“The podia of the two temples were in travertine and thus were not perfectly
white.”
On the roofing of the two smaller temples:
“The roof of the two temples must be white because the roofing was of white
Parian marble (a lot of it was found)”
On the “Tomb-Shrine”:
“The Telamons of the tomb-shrine in the center of the exedra ought to support
(with the capital that they had on their head) the architrave (as in fig. 3 of AJA).
Moreover, they ought to have the pose of the statues preserved in the Vatican (see
fig. 47 of RendPontAcc 2003-4) and ought to be red because they were made of
red granite.”
On the Obelisk:
“The obelisk, too, is made of red granite. The steps, in contrast, were probably of
white marble”
On the plantings:
“In the deep trench around the temples were definitely planted some palms (which
has been shown by the analysis of samples of earth), as is reconstructed in fig. 18
of AJA.”
Plantings and Gardens of the Antinoeion:
The plantings and gardens of the Antinoeion were implemented by the IDIA Lab according to
instructions by Zaccaria Mari, Lizzie Macaulay-Lewis, and Matthew Brennan.
The palms were chosen due to the “Egyptian theme” of the complex, and based upon
recommendations by Mari and Macaulay-Lewis.
Bibliography
Mari, Z. and S. Sgalambro. 2007. "The Antinoeion of Hadrian's Villa: Interpretation and Architectural
Reconstruction," American Journal of Archaeology 111: 83-104.
Mari, Z. 2006. "La tomba-tempio di Antinoo a Villa Adriana," in Suggestioni egizie a Villa Adriana, edited
by B. Adembri and Z. Mari (Milan) 35-45.
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