Background
Bernard David was born on May 23, 1949, in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Son of Louis and Eleanore (Newman) Frischer, husband of classicist Jane Webb Crawford.
2018
Portrait of Bernard Frischer
2018
Bernard Frischer is the founder and director of the Rome Reborn Project, the goal of which is to digitally reconstruct ancient Rome as it appeared in the year 320 CE. Seen in this image is an aerial view of the city model (Rome Reborn 3.0, 2018).
2019
www.digitalsculpture.org/florence
Landing page of the Uffizi-Indiana University 3D Digitization Project. Bernard Frischer is co-director of the project, whose goal is to publish free online 3D models of all the classical sculpture in the collections of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
2020
www.romereborn.org
A detail of the Rome Reborn model showing the central plaza and western end of the Roman Forum as it might have appeared in 320 CE. Bernard Frischer is the founding director of the Rome Reborn Project.
2020
https://www.flyoverzone.com/products/hadrians-villa-reborn-souththeater/
View of the computer reconstruction of the South Nymphaeum of the Stadium Garden at Hadrian's Villa (Tivoli, Italy). Bernard Frischer is the founding director of Hadrian's Villa Reborn, the goal of which is to create a digital reconstruction of this World Heritage Site as it appeared late in the reign of the emperor Hadrian (ruled 117-138 CE).
classical philologist Virtual Archaeologist
Bernard David was born on May 23, 1949, in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Son of Louis and Eleanore (Newman) Frischer, husband of classicist Jane Webb Crawford.
Student, University Tuebingen, Federal Republic of Germany, 1969—1970. Bachelor summa cum laude, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1971. Postgraduate, University Michigan, 1971—1972. Doctor of Philosophy summa cum laude, University Heidelberg, 1975.
Junior fellow Michigan Society Fellows, Ann Arbor, 1971—1974. Fellow, resident, trustee, American Academy in Rome. Assistant professor classics University of California at Los Angeles, 1976—1980, associate professor, 1980-1990, full professor, 1990-2004, chairman, 1984-88, principal investigator computers and classics projects, since 1984; full professor of Art History and Classical, University of Virginia, 2004-2013; full professor of Informatics (founder of Virtual Heritage doctoral program), School of Computing, Informatics, Engineering, Indiana University, 2013-; founder and president Flyover Zone, 2016-.
(About one instance of the relationship between historical...)
1990(The essays in New Studies on the Portrait of Caligula in ...)
2020(The Sabine Villa of the Roman poet Horace, celebrated in ...)
2001(“Horace’s Villa” is the name given to the site of a Roman...)
(This book is timely. As the following articles show, 2D a...)
Quotations: "Previous archaeologists have only interpreted the world. The point, however, is to bring it back to life."
Member of American Academy in Rome, American Research Center in Egypt, Archaeological Institute of America, British School in Rome, Phi Beta Kappa, Society of Classical Studies, Society of Computing Machinery
Married Jane Webb Crawford, December 1, 1979. 1 stepchild Katherine Barnes Crawford.