Working and teaching with digital visualization models help us to communicate narratives about historical sites. They also engage students in a “hands-on” mode of learning, so that they work on answering questions through the making of hypothetical models. The project illustrated above, for example, represents a reconstruction of the Early Christian basilica at San Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples as it might have looked when the new Gothic east end was constructed to expand the church in around 1270-1300. The model is done by Umberto Plaja, Duke ’10, and we are now developing this project into a narrated animation with photographs and the archaeological evidence.
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