Fashion Design Lab Magazine
june 2010 | nº 02 		  Virtual galleries
 Vito Cappellini
 
The Large Bronzes of the Baptistry. Giovanfrancesco Rustici and Leonardo, Florence, National Museum of the Bargello, 10th September 2010 - 10th January 2011The Bronzes of Rustici...

Giorgione at Palazzo Grimani, Venice, 29th August – 10th October 2010Giorgione in Venice...

Splendours of the hidden baroque. Art in Basilicata and within the borders from Luca Giordano to the eighteenth century | Florence, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, 24th July - 5th September 2010Hidden Baroque...

Vinum Nostrum. Art, science and myth of wine in the civilizations of the old Mediterranean | Museum of silver, Pitti Palace, Florence 20 july 2010 - 30 april 2011Vinum Nostrum...

Eight digital acquisitions of art-works of the Polo Museale Fiorentino on show at the Baptistery «San Giovanni in Corte» in Pistoia from 12 December 2009 to 31 January 2010, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raffaello, Piero della Francesca, Tiziano, Caravaggio, Coppo di Marcovaldo and Coppo di SalernoVirtual Galleries

Pitti Immagine Uomo June 2010A window on Pitti n°78...

   Stanley Kubrick. Photographer 1945 – 1950, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Venice 28th August – 14th November 2010Stanley Kubrick...

Tony Cragg. In 4D. From Flowing to steadiness, Venice, Cà Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art, 27th August 2010 – 9th January 2011Tony Cragg...

Pier Luigi Nervi. Architecture as a Challenge, Venice, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, 28th August – 14th November 2010Pier Luigi Nervi...

Paris it is worth while a Mass! 1610: the dedication of the Medici to Henry IV King of France and Navarra | Florence, Museum of the Cappelle Medicee, 15 th July - 2 nd November 20101610: Paris it is worth...

Robert Tateossian and the collection of jewels at the Four Seasons in Florence during the Pitti Immagine Uomo fashion showsRobert Tateossian...

Twentieth Century Art in Venice and Pistoia banking foundations collections, 1910-2010: A Century of Art in Pistoia. Artworks from the Cassa di Risparmio of Pistoia and Pescia Foundation, Venice and the Biennial’s Century. Paintings, glasses and photographs of Venice Foundation collection, Palazzo Fabbroni 23 may - 25 july, Jacopo Golisano, Lara-Vinca Masini, Enzo Di MartinoTwentieth Century Art...

  

Vito CappelliniMICC - Centro per la Comunicazione e l'Integrazione dei Media, Università degli Studi di Firenze.
vito.cappellini@unifi.it
The Project on «Excellence Digital Archive for Polo Museale Fiorentino» is in advanced realization phase by MICC - University of Florence, Hitachi Ltd. and Centrica Srl, under the coordination of Superintendent Cristina Acidini. Several art-works of Polo Museale Fiorentino have been digitized at very high resolution, by using new digital acquisition and image processing systems.

Fig. 1 shows the digital acquisition of «Nascita di Venere» in November 2009. Two digital cameras were used to acquire an image with 1200 ppi (pixels per inch) resolution. Total number of obtained pixels is about 10 Giga pixels.
In the evolution of the Project, Virtual Galleries have been designed and organized for several purposes:

a. To verify, with real public visitors, the attraction of Virtual Galleries, also with written comments.
b. To test experimental systems, mainly represented by high resolution «touch screen» displays and audio presentations.
c. To test Virtual Gallery set-up with special booths and systems.

Two Virtual Galleries were organized: 1) at Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Tokyo (5-20 October 2009); 2) at Baptistery «San Giovanni in Corte» in Pistoia (12 December 2009 - 31 January 2010).
In particular in the Virtual Gallery in Pistoia, sponsored by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia, eight digital art-works of Polo Museale Fiorentino were shown:

1. Annunciazione, Leonardo Da Vinci
2. Madonna del Magnificat, Sandro Botticelli
3. Sacra Famiglia detta «Tondo Doni», Michelangelo
4. Madonna del cardellino, Raffaello
5. Madonna della seggiola, Raffaello
6. La Libecciata, Giovanni Fattori
7. Dittico dei Duchi d'Urbino, Piero della Francesca
8. Il canto d'uno stornello, Silvestro Lega.

In addition an important art-work in the Cathedral of Pistoia, the Crucifix by Coppo di Marcovaldo and Coppo di Salerno, was acquired by Centrica SrL and shown in the Baptistery. The Virtual Gallery, under the coordination of Superintendent Cristina Acidini of Polo Museale Fiorentino and Prof. Vito Cappellini of Florence University, had a great success. More than 16.000 Visitors were in the Baptistery. Thousands of written comments were left by Visitors with near unanimous appreciation of the visit to the Virtual Gallery. In particular the request is emerging for other Virtual Galleries in the near future.

References

1. C. Acidini, V. Cappellini, «Reale e Virtuale nei Musei. Due visioni a confronto», Pitagora Editrice, Bologna, 2008.
2. V. Cappellini Ed., «Proceedings of EVA 2010 FLORENCE», Pitagora Editrice, Bologna, April 2010.

Shooting Scene of «Nascita di Venere» in Uffizi Gallery,(Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Soprintendenza per il Patrimonio Storico Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della Città di Firenze) «Annunciazione» by Leonardo da Vinci,(Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Soprintendenza per il Patrimonio Storico Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della Città di Firenze) Crucifix by Coppo di Marcovaldo e Salerno di Coppo (Cattedrale di Pistoia)
 
One of the nine installations in the Baptistery in Pistoia, based on ArsTouch® System by Centrica srl    
 
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