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The contribution concerns part of the research and valorisation activities carried out by the authors at Palazzo Spada in Rome, a place where scientific culture and artistic wisdom converged between the 16th and 17th centuries. The research activities included survey campaigns, the analysis of historical documentation and the interpretation of the data obtained. The results of the different actions feed both the digital transformation process of the cultural heritage and its cultural accessibility. The transformation and optimisation of the survey data for computer graphics applications enabled the production of four videos for the exhibition ‘The City of the Sun. Baroque Art and Scientific Thought in the Rome of Urban VIII' (curated by Filippo Camerota in collaboration with Marcello Fagiolo, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 16/11/2023-11/2/2024), with the aim of presenting to the general public the theories and processes that made possible the creation of the gnomonic catoctric astrolabe (1644) by Emmanuel Maignan and the accelerated solid perspective (1652-1653) by Francesco Borromini and Giovanni Maria Bitonto.