The Digital Hadrian's Villa Project: Animated Segments, March 2014

[@kevinbyrne4538]

Very handsome and intricate work of modeling. It must have required enormous patience to make this 7 minute video. Thank you for your labors. Much appreciated.

[@MatthewBrennan]

Thank you!

[@kevinbyrne4538]

@@MatthewBrennan -- Again, beautiful job, sir.

[@brendadrew834]

Absolutely beautiful along with perfect music! I remember how gorgeous Italy is when I lived there and studied art/architecture many moons ago! Like Paris and other beautiful places in Europe, once you go, you can never get it out of your mind or heart! Thanks for sharing ...great job!

[@ArizonaWillful]

The USA must seem very hideous to you in comparison.

[@Dina52328]

Magnificent, 3D reconstruction of Hadrian’s villa! We have a very detailed and beautiful view of how this luxurious villa looked like back then. Not even in our wildest imagination, could we fathom the architectural beauty of these Roman structures. I am in awe. Thank you for the creators of this video. 👏 👏👏

[@bartobruintjes7056]

Located at Tivoli 20 km east from Rome. The place where I had my vacation a couple of years ago. A place you have must to see when you love history!

[@eugeniovincenzo1621]

More specifically...You can book a tour through the Vatican of the Pope's summer residence as it is the same place next to Castel Gondolfo...Ciao Tutti!!!

[@bonir2003]

I would have liked to have seen the kitchens, dining, bedrooms and baths.

[@kalvinkalvarino9536]

Beautiful work man. Is there any other ones you wanna do? Nero’s palace, the Roman forum would be a good one. The baths of Caracalla were gorgeous.

[@brober]

To bring the dead back to life is a task worthy of the gods. Grazie mille.

[@Madmen604]

Wow, fantastic. This should be done with the world's museums, so more people can visit them.

[@adad-nerari4117]

A wonderful reconstruction,with poetic colours,lights and shadows : a dream.Thanks !

[@MatthewBrennan]

Thank you, Michel!

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

Nice house. It's like *living inside of the museum.* Imagine the amount of maintenance :-) The garden is the best part of this house.

[@Kanadabalsam]

Michelle eh more than living with his extended family i think it has more to do with the fact that he was the Emperor, he could have as many servants as he pleased lol.

[@pansepot1490]

Kanadabalsam, slaves.

[@MrBuddydance]

Incredible digital animation. The light, trees, water, everything looks so clear and real.

[@sanderpostema8613]

What a beautifully made reconstruction!!! I am especially impressed by the Nymphaeum (0:52!) with those impressing scenery with Niobe and her children!!! Breathtaking!!

[@charlesrae3793]

What a marvellous film! To see one of the great buildings of the classical world brought back to life like this....

[@simplepixel5617]

The fact that the video is from 2014 and the rendering is incredibly beautiful, astonishes me. Great job. The graphics stand really well even in 2021.

[@MatthewBrennan]

Thank you!

[@menaseven9093]

Beautiful 3D video of Hadrian villa reconstruction. You are knowledgeable because you show the Roman statues in their original color.

[@beckyecklund5252]

Just beautiful cheap labor, great architect and the best materials

[@ciaotiziocaius4899]

i Vited Hadrian's Villa just a few months ago, it was stunning just like this video!

[@theway8226]

i watched this silently, WOW. I'm not sure what I'm watching. This buildings became part of my body.

[@garzareal1]

This video is perfect: the music, the 3D drawings, all of it, congratulations!

[@WondrousEarth]

sumptuously beautiful, remarkable!

[@yves-noel-mariegonnet1043]

Ça se regarde en boucle! C'est beau! C'est beau! C'est beau! Un vrai rêve! Merci!

[@marquitosdb85]

BEAUTIFUL........ CONGRATULATIONS

[@mariaborja4301]

Villa straordinaria per bellezze storiche e naturali!🌿🌲✌🌲🌿🏕☀️

[@JohnDoe-px4ko]

Visited here a couple of years ago. Amazing place even in ruins.

[@gracafaria1861]

Beautiful, amazing place it was...i can feel myself at home... thank you!!!... :)

[@ciccioformaggiopuzzo]

Great work, and great roman Hadrian's villa, thank you.

[@cweefy]

i want to step into this and wander to my heart's desire

[@kaloarepo288]

Hard to get used to the idea that all the statues were once gaudily painted -our tastes over the years have gone down the track of considering pure white marble as the only "noble" alternative!That's because all the statues were re-discovered pure white -the paint had long ago peeled off.

[@jebstuart4004]

painted statues were only for the inside of houses and temples. Récent studies show that bronze was for the outside. So i m not sure of what is shown here ?! i suppose that when you re an emperor you can have as many painters as you want to give a new paint job.

[@MatthewBrennan]

@@jebstuart4004 I'd like to read these studies you mention. At the time that this video was made, scientific scholarship on statue polychromy was in its very beginning stages, and I don't think that any art historian would make definitive claims about what types of statues were meant for where, since we rarely have in situ find locations.

[@jebstuart4004]

@@MatthewBrennan not définitive you re right no one can prove it at 100%, but the archeologist dr Brinksmann from Munich germany university (the studies i m talkin about ) says during an interview, that color pigments were not made to last long, so it s doubtful that painted statues were made to stay outside. There s also another problem : we don t know if they were painted with or without highlights and shades or naïve. Some statues seems to be half painted (only the cloth and not the flesh). Saying that they were all painted is wrong, saying they were not at all is wrong too. Perhaps it was the right of the artist and the mood of the moment !

[@ArizonaWillful]

@Stephanie Logan Yes, but it was also seemingly an artistic convention of the times to give men the genitals of a 1 year old infant. They were always extremely undeveloped.

[@johnfebaines]

ArizonaWillful they were precursors of Trump

[@jayaseto]

This place is sooo sooo beautiful. If I were one of the Billionaires I’d build myself a home like this

[@yves-noel-mariegonnet1043]

C'est magnifique! admirable. Mention spéciale aussi pour la musique. Bravo et Merci!

[@MrZnarffy]

So, living 2000 years ago could be very nice for a select few.. :)

[@D-777i]

'twas always thus and always thus shall be....

[@MashMaloCircus]

You can still apply such comment to this very day

[@jmitterii2]

@@D-777i However increasingly better for more and more. When scarcity is no more via technology, it will be very nice for all. But that'll be when we discover energy that is even more abundant than hydrogen for fusion. And/or a replicator that makes things from food to mechanical parts or entire assembled appliances and vehicles. But long before technology that is magic to us in our day comes along, we will have to increasingly become a more fairer society, otherwise civilizations will break down committing suicide and there won't be any on this planet for there to be a few to have it all; so either way it won't always be.

[@kingbjorn1832]

not quiet correct your opinion, hadrian wanted to create a tiny rome outside the capital, the villa wasnt created only for the emperor and the consul, but also the administration zone, the military, the arquitecs, so on so far. so the "just a few" its just not correct

[@Richard-pe4cx]

i think all world class museums will be offering vr versions of this to bring it back to life imagine being in pompey and instead of an audio guide slip on a vr headset

[@alexing86]

I'd rather see the ruins than virtual reality

[@fussel895]

It’s being done in France, in some castles, you get to walk around with an ipad... (there was VR at Blois’s royal castle)! It is for sure at work!

[@soilofk]

Sooo impressive!!! love #ancientrome you should do the Baths in the city of Bath.

[@calvinjackson8110]

If Hadrian built anything like this, he must have enjoyed it immensely. Whoa! I just thought about how many people he would have to hire to maintain such opulence.

[@damirblazevic4823]

He didn't hire people. He had slaves.

[@zeekwolfe6251]

The Getty museum of Greek and Roman antiquities in Los Angeles has an unforgettable reconstruction of a Roman estate villa. A Roman trsnsported in time 2k years would be comfortable walking on part of the grounds open to the public.

[@igorvoloshin8515]

I assume it must be historically accurate work! A big effort, indeed. Now it deserves to be rendered with realistic skins and more modern software to make it vivid.

[@lebarosky]

Stunning.

[@rodolphoschulzer9753]

A arquitetura da Roma Antiga é belíssima. Ótimo vídeo!!!😀👍🇧🇷

[@mariaborja4301]

La città di Tivoli ( antica Tibur) è molto più antica di Roma !

[@anauthor1857]

I am petitioning the Italian government to restore Rome to its former glory, I think there will be many contributors to the funds needed for this

[@RomanOf-lo7zn]

Agreed

[@joeallen7781]

A wonderful idea. All the economic migrants, i mean refugees, are going to need statues and nice marble pillars to pi*s on.

[@budmeister]

Not gonna happen.

[@budmeister]

@@joeallen7781 *piss

[@pondpunya4791]

they already tried to restore Rome in the 1930s.

[@goldenamorak]

I think it would've been nice to have some photos or short videos of what it looks like now, to give some idea. I've been to hadrian's villa but am struggling to fit what I saw to the structures in this video

[@joannanorma]

All those fabulous water features and not a fossil fuel in sight

[@Rick2010100]

Ancient cooling technology as the evaporated water cools the surroundings. Also the better Roman houses (domus) had a Impluvium in the center, providing cooling of the living spaces.

[@mukankakuna]

Great work and I love the project.

[@codexcrypto]

Excellent work!

[@silviacaptan1300]

Romans new how to build. Beauty, echilibrum, and light all worked toghether for the perfect creation.

[@TairnKA]

At 3:01, the first thought I had was how would they react to someone flying a kite. Be amazed or horrified, claiming him a wizard or a heretic for presuming he could reach the gods. The key points of this is what is painted on the kite, what colors, a red eye and where is it flying, over the Emperors castle walls?

[@chocomobila8456]

Una presentación con mucho trabajo y MUCHO 👌 encanto 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@andrejmucic5003]

amazing! my grandma's house in south Serbia is layed out exactly like a Roman Domus So weird!

[@johannesnicolaas]

Maybe it was passed on by the collective memory!

[@leexue964]

really love it!!! thank you so much for making such a marvellous reconstruction!

[@sophialoren7855]

Stunning work! Amazing dedication! Subscribed!

[@johannesnicolaas]

If only we could put some of the money we now wast on weapons in the building of something as beautiful as this!

[@fehmiabbasi4874]

you are right

[@budmeister]

without war we wouldn't have much of the modern medicine or technology that we have today.

[@Gedagnors]

Just surrender to taliban and you will have all the houses you want.

[@SuzLa1]

They need to keep people in debt, dumbed down, scared and under control. They have people scared of Ismic extremists, when it hardly existed before USA were arming and training them in Afghanistan against Russia. Then USA didn't care what was going on there after such as females banned from education. When Thatcher was causing trouble with the rest of Europe, as she wanted Britain's economy closely linked with USA encouraging greed and debt so economy crashes every few years, secret service whistle blower David Shayler told how she was going along with the USA funding Al Q aeda in Libya against Gaddafi. It isn't a coincidence tourists were shot in Tunisia by extremists from Libya border after Gaddafi. Now IS are driving around Syria in trucks USA sent to overthrow Assad. While USA supports extremist nation Saudi Arabia.

[@Sawrattan]

@@SuzLa1 exactly - most Muslim countries in the 1950s were moving towards secularism until the commie-fearing Americans decided to help the Islamists

[@amilcaryabar4601]

Hermosa recreaciom de la villa romana.

[@theCreativeAssemblymachinimas]

I have been there in the ruins with a school trip in my high school... I am Italian.

[@Stug9680]

The Versailles' castle of Antiquity !

[@twoarrows2543]

Holy friggin cow, this is beautiful!!

[@giorgio1952ful]

Una ricostruzione perfetta e veritiera del Palazzo di Adriano : bravi!

[@sjsomersart4050]

OUTSTANDING!!!

[@robdouglas9676]

Great reconstruction

[@aylacristina7295]

What a beauty!

[@noelyanes2455]

I wonder how much a project to build a habitable replica like this would cost

[@deicazah]

Marvelous music!

[@mox.kartal]

great modeling!

[@GregoryTheGr8ster]

This is breathtaking! I wish that I could be a Roman emperor, and live in such a palace every day. I would be filled with glee knowing that the whole structure is funded by taxes.

[@thetriumphofthethrill2457]

Nice music too.

[@OparStanley1008]

Could you do some architecture during Julian II reign? If there's any of course.

[@TheCARLOSCOCCIA]

ottimo lavoro, complimenti

[@reestablishingrome]

this looks amazing :D

[@johnkeviljr9625]

Great job guys! Thank You.

[@squeakychairproductions]

Very cool. How do you know what it looked like in such detail?

[@MatthewBrennan]

Thank you. The reconstructions are based on archaeological evidence from the site, as well as comparanda from other sites of the same time period.

[@Chabklem2073]

Simply Marvellous!

[@ciscomail1315]

Impressive Villa of the Emperor Adrian....there were "souvenirs" from all the Empire...but maybe is more "Romantic" now...

[@purestrangewonderful8955]

Beautiful

[@RicardoLRodriguezMD]

What is the music in the background? Thanks!

[@fussel895]

I’ve been waiting for this! Can’t believe my architecte would post my future house on youtube though! ...

[@targetgermany7159]

Sehr gute Arbeit.

[@georgethomas1761]

amazing beautiful paradise

[@histguy101]

Hadrian must have said: "It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it, and it might as well be me..."

[@bellyfluff101]

Wonderful. Thank you for sharing.

[@ronnidillon8563]

Mamma MIA !!!! THATSA LOTTA VILLA !!!!!

[@paisleypeacock]

*Truly Divine!*

[@safeysmith6720]

I’ve been to the ruins of this place. I couldn’t believe how large it was. It must have been more like a city. I remember thinking that the emperor could spend a whole week long holiday, in just one corner of this palace! But I know it wasn’t quite like that. There were a lot of temples, which helped make up its size. There was the one pond, which had statues of heroes, and an air-conditioning waterfall (fed via an ancient aqueduct and no longer present), where lavish feasts took place, which was really cool. At the main entrance, you have to climb a slope to reach it, and you pass through the wall at a small entrance and come out onto a large garden with a large rectangular pond. The garden is about the size of six football fields, and it sits upon a piece of high ground which, surrounded by a wall built on the lower ground, commands a wide view of the fields beyond. At other angles, looking out from Hadrians Villa, the land takes on a vast and dramatic, arid and hilly terrain. Not unlike what you’d see in New Mexico or something.

[@zaka503]

Very good.

[@myhs57]

Amazing! Thank you!

[@scottishbombolini7794]

It's good to be the King, but not like a King.

[@poitersdelarosinides1833]

This is incredible! Do you have many more of these?

[@MatthewBrennan]

Thank you! Yes there are some more on my channel and I hope to render some more videos over the summer.

[@poitersdelarosinides1833]

@@MatthewBrennan I have been watching them. You have done a great job. I'm forwarding to friends and family. If I were to get a VR headset from Amazon is there a way I could take a tour?

[@MatthewBrennan]

@@poitersdelarosinides1833 Right now, not of the Hadrian's Villa reconstruction - I am planning to make a VR tour/application of that. I have a playlist of "VR"/360-degree videos that can be viewed on a VR headset for full immersion (they can also be watched on a mobile device, moving and rotating the phone to see all around you).

[@MatthewBrennan]

@@poitersdelarosinides1833 PS - right now, unless you have a very powerful computer, I think the Oculus Quest is the best VR headset :)

[@poitersdelarosinides1833]

@@MatthewBrennan Thank you Matthew! I will stay tuned.

[@lablackzed]

Image if it was restored to its original beauty today what an attraction it would be today expensive yes but would be worth every Penney spent it would be out of this world.

[@Kanal7Indonesia]

I'm obsessed with Roman culture.

[@r.n.streeter1643]

How did they trim the shrubbery and mow the lawns?

[@yargundev9772]

How they loved the sunlight...

[@Kanal7Indonesia]

They worshipped Sun

[@and1040]

That,s good. But capitels and basises of all white columns must be in color!!!

[@lelloogiorgino]

Beautiful 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 I love the roman history 👍👍👍

[@Lurgansahib]

I think I could just about live in that, might be a bit of a struggle but I think I would give it a go!! Lol

[@magnvss]

Very nice. That (very) old movies' music though...

[@theophaneantipater6333]

Is it possible to make a reservation for July please ! Very nice reconstitution ! Thank you ...

[@Tflexxx02]

An overview of the grounds, showing each space relative to each other, might help. I got lost. Other than that, if you're a Roman emperor, "Life is good", "This will last forever" and "I'm glad I don't have to clean this place".

[@MatthewBrennan]

please see this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZiqgpSKgtmKea8

[@XCaarriinnaaX]

nice where can i download it

[@melbae.1124]

Rome truly was an empire full of architectonics jewels!

[@christopherthorkon3997]

I'm am just picturing Hadrian and his young male lover frolicking about this place.

[@mr.edwards4863]

What is the name of the number the orchestra is playing I really want that

[@horationelson57]

Elgar Serenade for Strings. Alas, it was only you and me that noticed the aptly haunting musical accompaniment...the rest were tone deaf

[@tarahoover6211]

Lucille Archie. Me too, its beautiful! ☺

[@papibou516]

not true

[@ZinebFakir]

Thank you, i was hoping someone asked and found an answer

[@Kaczyfunny]

It is beautyfull thank you :-)

[@llany59]

Divino.....divino....placida vida......como me gustaris haber estado allí❤

[@mariaborja4301]

L''ho visitata tantissime volte e se pur solo ruderi e' superba unica e straordinariamente interessante!🌲🌲🌿🌲🌲🌿🌲🌲🌿🌿🏛🏞🌿

[@ausstraya9120]

Wonderful, thanks.