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Craniofacial reconstruction of Raphael Sanzio from Urbino: Face and features of a “mortal god”
Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Pub Date : 2021-05-29 , DOI: 10.1016/j.daach.2021.e00190
Cristina Martínez-Labarga , Raoul Carbone , Valeria Ridolfi , Marta Parrino , Sabrina Vitali , Luigi Bravi , Olga Rickards , Mattia Falconi

Forensic anthropology aims at identifying human remains when the skeleton represents the last recourse for forensic evaluation. Facial reconstruction is a multidisciplinary technique combining anatomical, anthropological, artistic and graphic principles to reconstruct the living appearance based on the morphology of the skull for recognition or identification purposes.

The alleged skeletal remains of Raphael Sanzio were recovered in 1833 in the Pantheon in Rome, together with the corpses of some of his disciples. This research, on the five-hundredth anniversary of his death, aims at confirming, through 3D facial reconstruction using a manual computerized technique, that the plaster cast of the cranium engraved following Raphael's exhumation and now stored at the Museum “Casa Natale di Raffaello” in Urbino, definitively belonged to the great artist.

Comparison of our reconstruction with Raphael's self-portraits resulted in their total superimposition on the profile of the “divine painter”.

When completed, the approximation was also compared with a controversial painting “Portrait of a man”, by Sebastiano del Piombo.

This research provides, for the first time, the concrete proof that the skeleton exhumed from the Pantheon in 1833 belongs to Raphael, paving the way for possible future molecular studies for further validating his identity.



中文翻译:

乌尔比诺 (Urbino) 拉斐尔·桑齐奥 (Raphael Sanzio) 的颅面重建:“凡人之神”的面部和特征

法医人类学旨在在骨骼代表法医评估的最后手段时识别人类遗骸。面部重建是一种多学科技术,结合解剖学、人类学、艺术和图形原理,基于头骨的形态重建活体外观,用于识别或识别。

1833 年在罗马万神殿发现了所谓的拉斐尔·桑齐奥 (Raphael Sanzio) 的骨骼遗骸,以及他的一些门徒的尸体。在拉斐尔逝世 500 周年之际,这项研究旨在通过使用手动计算机技术进行 3D 面部重建,确认拉斐尔挖掘出来后雕刻的头盖骨石膏模型,现在存放在“Casa Natale di Raffaello”博物馆在乌尔比诺,绝对属于这位伟大的艺术家。

我们的重建与拉斐尔的自画像的比较导致它们完全叠加在“神圣画家”的轮廓上。

完成后,该近似值还与塞巴斯蒂亚诺·德尔·皮翁博 (Sebastiano del Piombo) 的一幅有争议的画作《男人的肖像》进行了比较。

这项研究首次提供了具体证据,证明 1833 年从万神殿出土的骨架属于拉斐尔,为未来可能进行的分子研究以进一步验证其身份铺平了道路。

更新日期:2021-06-03
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