3D print Santa Maria sopra Minerva
A free, printable model of the church's flat Renaissance front and long roof, with the streets and buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 8 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
8 mm tall on a 160 mm print
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Packed into a dense block
The church sits tight against its neighbors, so much of the model is the streets and buildings around it. Print larger, or choose Full detail, so the church itself still reads against them.
- A flat front, a long roof
The front is a wide, flat screen rather than a tower, and the roof runs back in a single line. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the roofline and the wall edges crisp.
- One piece with the ground
Santa Maria sopra Minerva is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. Santa Maria sopra Minerva takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About Santa Maria sopra Minerva
Santa Maria sopra Minerva, in Rome, is a minor basilica and one of the Dominican order's major churches in Italy. It stands on the Piazza della Minerva, in the Pigna quarter of the Campus Martius, one block east of the Pantheon. The name records what lies underneath: the first church on the site went up right on top of a temple to the Egyptian goddess Isis, wrongly credited to the Greco-Roman goddess Minerva.
The Dominicans started the present Gothic church in 1280, using their church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence as a model, and two friars of the order, Fra Ristoro da Campi and Fra Sisto Fiorentino, probably drew the plans. Side aisles went up in the 14th century with money from Pope Boniface VIII and the faithful, the nave was vaulted in 1453, and the facade was only finished in 1725. Most medieval churches in Rome were refitted in the Baroque period; this one kept its Gothic structure, and it remains the only surviving example of original Gothic church building in the city.
Behind a restrained Renaissance front, the interior took its present look in a Neo-Gothic restoration that ran from 1848 to 1855, when the vaulting was colored blue, starred in gold and ribbed in red. The church and its convent served at times as headquarters of the Dominican order and, after 1628, as home to the Congregation of the Holy Office; in a room of the convent on June 22, 1633, Galileo Galilei abjured his Copernican theses. Two papal conclaves were held here, in 1431 and in 1447.
About this model
Santa Maria sopra Minerva is one of more than 4,400 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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