Art and its techniques have been a very useful support through history in order to understand how the world evolves, and even that since Antiquity, artists dedicated themselves not just to artistic creation, but also to scientific research. It is the Renaissance that marked a change in the figure of the artist as a polymath, a true expert on the sciences, and arts. Probably being Leonardo da Vinci, the most famous model of this kind of artist-scientist figure.
This work is strongly aimed to highlight how different artistic techniques can support scientific research from the point of view of Fine Arts and Culture. A statement is made to remark the
importance and notoriousness that artists have had in a wide range of fields, specially through scientific drawing, the precursor of Paleoart, as an example of how scientists can benefit from Artistic production in its research, as combining different branches of research with artistic impressions based on scientific evidences enriches the produced knowledge.
Also, an approximation to the surrounding landscape is made in this work, acting as a supporting media, not just from an aesthetic purpose, but acting as a point of view from which philosophic theories can be developed, as landscape is attached to society and conditions the actions humans carry out in the environment. Thus, the human activities are sinergic to the landscape they happen on, as an environment needs the individual to be considered a landscape, and the individual needs a landscape that will bend its own personality, permeating characteristics from one to another.
These concepts have been applied in the study of “El dolmen de Bajil” (Bajil’s dolmen), a funerary monument built in Bajil, Moratalla, northwest border of Murcia Region, during the Chalcolithic, and for which an archaea-architectural reconstruction of its original form is proposed, following the most accepted experts’ proposed hypotheses.
In order to make this reconstruction, diverse techniques were used. Some of them, using some of the latest technological developments, like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) technology and Artificial Intelligence, combined with the most classical results, as painting.
The main objective of this work is promoting the transversality of Fine Arts, and the possibilities that it opens on various research fields. While also making a statement about the vast Cultural Patrimony in the Region of Murcia, Spain, where this work is developed, that constitutes a vast source of historical and prehistoric knowledge