This paper investigates the sixteenth-century woodcuts contained in Lorenz Stöer’s Geometria et Perspectiva (1567) through digital reconstruction and Augmented Reality applications. The study analyzes the perspectival logic, geometric solids, and imaginary spatial compositions represented in the engravings, aiming to understand how Stöer constructed visual worlds that oscillate between representation and illustration. By combining historical research, geometric decoding, 3D modelling, and marker-based AR, the authors propose a multimedia exhibition where visitors can explore the hidden three-dimensional spaces behind the drawings and reconstruct possible viewing systems such as perspectographs. The AR experience enables users to compare represented, perceived, and imagined spaces, transforming historical prints into interactive learning environments. The research demonstrates how AR can enhance the interpretation and dissemination of intangible cultural heritage, making complex concepts of geometry, perception, and Renaissance visual culture accessible to wider audiences.
Perspective Between Representation and AR: the Apse of the Church of St. Ignatius
This contribution studies the ways in which Augmented Reality (AR) can communicate and disseminate knowledge about our cultural heritage in general and, in particular, Architectural Perspectives (AP). The focus is to increase our knowledge and understanding of perspective technique and how the latter deals with the unique mix between the real architectural environment and an illusory space, in this case the decorations of the presbytery and apse of the Church of St. Ignatius in Rome. The specific objective of the study is the possibility to use the Pozzo’s treatise to “augment” its fruition, accompanied by a virtual visit in order to gather more in-depth information about the perspective construction that creates the effect of spatial expansion thanks to this expedient. This decoration is in fact one of the rare cases of a perspective representation of a pictorial project, in turn also a perspective designed by Pozzo; this design is the “activation” element of an AR experience that immediately illustrates the perspective bravura of its creator.
Wood Inlays and AR: Considerations Regarding Perspective
The contribution reflects on the options provided by recent Augmented Reality (AR) applications to the knowledge and enhancement of a nationally and internationally renowned cultural asset: perspec-tive wood inlays.The methodology envisages two closely–connected stages initially involving perspective decoding and ensuing reconstruction of the illusory model, followed by the creation of a set–up for the AR pursuant to the digitalization of the three–dimensional model.In AR, perspective is the ideal tool to virtually experience the space represented in the decoration; at the same time it provides the most suitable solutions required to optimise the AR project.