Spectacularity on the Frontline
An Interactive Materialization of the Costume of the Burgundian Prostitute in Louis Braun’s Panorama of the Battle of Murten
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13125413 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathi Martin (0000-0001-5409-5234, Drexel University, corresponding author), Momo Jawwad (Philadelphia University) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 46-46 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Heritage (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2571-9408 • E-ISSN: 2571-9408 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/heritage9020046 |
| OpenAlex | W7125819998 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
The dressed body can reveal a great deal about the social, economic, political and artistic milieu that propelled a fashion style. Louis Braun used fashion to augment the narrative of his artwork, the Murten Panorama, a 10 m × 100 m cylindrical painting commemorating the Swiss victory against the army of the Duchy of Burgundy, 1476. The Laboratory for Experimental Museology, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, led by Sarah Kenderdine, has digitized the panorama, producing a 1.6-trillion-pixel digital twin, the largest digital image of a particular object ever created. Exhibitions of the twin are in progress across Switzerland and other international venues to commemorate the 550th anniversary of the Burgundian wars. Volumetric videos, 3D objects and historic costume characters, motion capture and a dynamic soundscape present a multisensory immersive experience. This paper outlines our method of ‘materializing’, in 3D, the dress of the Burgundian prostitute, a prominent character in the panorama. Researching the sartorial, historical and artistic influences affecting Braun while he created the artwork revealed multiple layers of fashion interpretation and informed our research on how to embody the materiality of the character’s costume. We discuss our multi-disciplinary process to ‘materialize’ the character and the software used in the development
Battle · Character (mathematics · Exhibition · Interpretation (philosophy · Materiality (auditing · Narrative · Painting · Panorama · 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis · Cultural and Historical Studies · Fashion and Cultural Textiles
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |