“I Went to America to See Ancient Italian Paintings”: The Problem of the Re-contextualization of Artworks Uprooted from Their Original Settings

Abstract

The paper aims to explore new methods of re-contextualization of artworks in their original settings, based on 3D reconstruction and 3D Web, through a case-study. It concerns a cycle of Medieval frescoes, detached from the walls of a monastery in Umbria, Central Italy, altered by numerous and some very recent renovations. At the present, the fragments of the cycle of frescoes are preserved in various museums, mostly in the United States.