WTI Magazine #42    2014 September, 3
Author : buonenotizie.it      Translation by:

In the Monumental Complex of San Domenico Maggiore, in Naples, the exhibition "Masterpieces in detail" has been inaugurated. The project, which merges art and technology at its pure state, is conceived and directed by Renato Parascandolo, produced and realized by the Pietrasanta Cultural Centre with the City of Naples and Rai, and is in continuity with the project "A View impossible" by Leonardo , Raphael and Caravaggio which scored over 80 thousand visitors in just over six months.

"Encouraged by 80 thousand visitors to the previous exhibition, we offer - Parascandolo explained - a series of meetings and insights which protagonists are 20 young art historians. Combining new technologies and scientific rigor we hope to transform the convent of San Domenico Maggiore in a "house of digital culture". The technology is becoming everyday more essential in culture.

And so until October 10, in the Great Refectory of the Convent of San Domenico Maggiore everybody can admire on an enormous size screen (10 x 5 meters) images of 117 masterpieces by Leonardo, Raphael and Caravaggio reproduced in high definition and in detail. These paintings will be presented by young art historians from different Italian cities that will alternate in a series of evening meetings from the end of August.

The exhibition also includes a section dedicated to Leonardo in which it presents the entire pictorial works (17 paintings), reproduced at actual size and high definition. In particular, visitors can admire "The Last Supper" in a multimedia and interactive version on touch screen, that allows to go into the details of the work and even observe the cracks in the plaster.

Completing the Leonardo exhibition is "Leonardo's construction yards", with five cars built adhered to his designs.