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.