Fans of the world of culture and art in celebration: a selection of works from the Museo del Novecento are now available in very high definition online. And this is not the only good news: the observation of the gigapixel-format works acquired during the last digitization campaign revealed and confirmed an excellent state of conservation of the masterpieces, which are now available to the public on the Haltadefinizione website to complete the emotion to admire them live in the rooms of the Museo del Novecento.
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The high-definition images were created using the acquisition technologies developed by Haltadefinizione, Franco Cosimo Panini Editore’s tech company, with the technological partner Memooria, in order to monitor the conservation status of the works and make them accessible online to the general public.
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The selected works contain the essence of the main international avant-gardes represented by some of the greatest artists of the twentieth century: Elasticity (1912) and Human Body (Dynamism, 1913) by Umberto Boccioni, the Portrait of Paul Guillaume by Amedeo Modigliani (1916), Composition by Vasilij Kandinskij (1916) and Wald Bau by Paul Klee (1919) are now available on the Haltadefinizione website in gigapixel resolution.
From the texture of the canvas to the most microscopic touch of the brush, multimedia viewers allow you to “immerse yourself” and explore the image of the works of art and also see what sometimes, in front of the original works, the eye could not appreciate.
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The presence of conservative glasses in the acquisition phase did not alter the quality of the images, in fact very high levels of definition, quality, detail and chromatic fidelity were achieved.
The possibility of digitizing works of art with museum glass, climaboxes or display cases allows the institution to protect the painting while maintaining optimal conservation conditions.
With the gigapixel it is possible to obtain high resolution digital copies of the paintings, through the union and processing of a large number of single photographic shots in portions of the same subject: the image of the Portrait of Paul Guillaume by Modigliani, one of the works best known of the Livorno artist, is the result of 779 shots for a resolution of about 1100 ppi.
The same resolution was reached for the works of Boccioni and Kandinskij.