Luca Brunke

Research & CV

Dr. Luca Brunke

Postdoctoral Researcher · University of Augsburg

Current research

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Augsburg, in the group for Image Processing & Visualization in the Digital Humanities. My work develops computational methods for cultural heritage: photogrammetric and laser-scan reconstruction, semantic data modelling, and the research infrastructure that connects capture to interpretation.

My doctorate, undertaken at the University of Exeter with The National Gallery, London, examined digital reconstruction as a method in art-historical and archaeological enquiry. That thread continues in my current work bridging heritage documentation and scholarship.

Education

  • 2021–26
    MPhil & PhD, Art History and Visual Culture
    University of Exeter, Department of Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies, with The National Gallery, London
    Funded by an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership.
  • 2016–18
    MSc, Digital Archaeology (major), with Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, Middle Ages and Modern Period (minor)
    Universiteit Leiden, Faculty of Archaeology
    Research scholarship, KNIR (Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome).
  • 2014–16
    Digital Humanities Certificate
    Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, eScience-Center
  • 2012–15
    BA, Prehistory, Early History and Medieval Archaeology (major), with Palaeoanthropology (minor)
    Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Philosophische Fakultät

Experience

Teaching

  • WiSe 2026/27
    3D-Dokumentation des materiellen Kulturerbes
    Übung · MA · Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte (KuK)
  • WiSe 2026/27
    Einführung in die 3D-Modellierung
    Übung · BA · Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte (KuK)
  • WiSe 2026/27
    Theorie und Methodik digitaler Rekonstruktion
    Hauptseminar · Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte (KuK)

Selected publications

Nevola, Fabrizio, Anna McGee, and Luca Brunke. n.d.. “Florence4D’s Interdisciplinary Workflow for Research-Based 3D Models: A Palazzo Medici Case Study.” In 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage, Vol. VI: The DigitalTwin or the MemoryTwin, edited by Marinos Ioannides et al. Springer Nature Computer Science Book Series. Manuscript submitted.

@article{nevolamcgeebrunke_nd,
  author  = {Nevola, Fabrizio, Anna McGee, and Luca Brunke},
  title   = {Florence4D’s Interdisciplinary Workflow for Research-Based 3D Models: A Palazzo Medici Case Study},
  year    = {n.d.}
}

Nevola, Fabrizio, Donal Cooper, Chiara Capulli, and Luca Brunke. 2023. “Bringing Together Geospatial Information, 3D Modeling, Experiential Learning and Research Data: The Ospedale Degli Innocenti—A Case Study of the Florence 4D Project.” Hertziana Studies in Art History 2 (n.p.). https://doi.org/10.48431/hsah.0207

@article{nevolaetal2023innocenti,
  author  = {Nevola, Fabrizio, Donal Cooper, Chiara Capulli, and Luca Brunke},
  title   = {Bringing Together Geospatial Information, 3D Modeling, Experiential Learning and Research Data: The Ospedale Degli Innocenti—A Case Study of the Florence 4D Project},
  year    = {2023}
}

Cooper, Donal, Fabrizio Nevola, Chiara Capulli, and Luca Brunke. 2022. “3D Models and Locative AR: Hidden Florence 3D and Experiments in Reconstruction.” In Hidden Cities: Urban Space, Geolocated Apps and Public History in Early Modern Europe, edited by Fabrizio Nevola, David Rosenthal, and Nicholas Terpstra, 231–249. London: Routledge.

@article{cooperetal2022hiddenflorence,
  author  = {Cooper, Donal, Fabrizio Nevola, Chiara Capulli, and Luca Brunke},
  title   = {3D Models and Locative AR: Hidden Florence 3D and Experiments in Reconstruction},
  year    = {2022}
}

Nevola, Fabrizio, Donal Cooper, Chiara Capulli, and Luca Brunke. 2021. “Research-Based 3D Modelling of Santa Maria degli Innocenti: Recovering a Context for the Quattrocento Altarpieces.” In Common Children and the Common Good: Locating Foundlings in the Early Modern World, edited by Nicholas Terpstra. Florence: Villa I Tatti and Istituto degli Innocenti.

@article{nevolaetal2021santamaria,
  author  = {Nevola, Fabrizio, Donal Cooper, Chiara Capulli, and Luca Brunke},
  title   = {Research-Based 3D Modelling of Santa Maria degli Innocenti: Recovering a Context for the Quattrocento Altarpieces},
  year    = {2021}
}

Nevola, Fabrizio, Donal Cooper, Chiara Capulli, and Luca Brunke. 2022. “Immersive Renaissance Florence: Research-Based 3D Modelling in Digital Art and Architectural History.” Getty Research Journal 15 (2022): 203–227.

@article{nevolaetal2022immersive,
  author  = {Nevola, Fabrizio, Donal Cooper, Chiara Capulli, and Luca Brunke},
  title   = {Immersive Renaissance Florence: Research-Based 3D Modelling in Digital Art and Architectural History},
  year    = {2022}
}

Cooper, Donal, Francesca Aimi, Fabrizio Nevola, and Luca Brunke. 2022. “Escaping Alberti’s Prison: Space, Narrative, and Computer Visualization in Domenico Veneziano’s Fitzwilliam Predella Panels.” In Hockney’s Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction, edited by Martin Kemp and Martin Gayford, 158–172. Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum, March 2022.

@article{cooperetal2022alberti,
  author  = {Cooper, Donal, Francesca Aimi, Fabrizio Nevola, and Luca Brunke},
  title   = {Escaping Alberti’s Prison: Space, Narrative, and Computer Visualization in Domenico Veneziano’s Fitzwilliam Predella Panels},
  year    = {2022}
}

Talks at Digital Humanities research seminars in Durham, Exeter and London. Further conference presentations are not listed here.

Full publication list on ORCID