Capitoline Museums launch Visea, new multimedia tool that tells the story of the art of fresco painting

Starting Dec. 15, the Capitoline Museums present the Visea project, an innovative multimedia application that tells the story of the art of fresco painting.

The frescoes, commissioned by the Capitoline Magistracy and painted between 1587 and 1594, depict some of the most famous episodes in the history of ancient Rome from the work of Titus Livy Ab Urbe Condita. The pictorial cycle executed by painter Tommaso Laureti in the Sala dei Capitani in the Palazzo dei Conservatori of the Capitoline Museums will come to life through the application that allows visitors to retrace the entire execution process. Visitors thus have the opportunity to navigate inside the scenes on the four walls (the Justice of Brutus, Horatio Coclite at the Sublicio Bridge, Muzio Scevola in front of Porsenna and the Battle near Lake Regillo) and discover the temporal sequence of execution of the frescoes, retrace the successive days of work, the pictorial groups made during the days of work, grasp the technical methods used by the ’artist to go from drawing on paper to plaster, but also his processes in painting and his second thoughts.

Created within the framework of the POR/FESR 2014-2020 Lazio Region Call for Proposals “L’impresa fa cultura” 2019 and promoted by Roma Culture, Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali, the project was conceived by the team CBC Conservazione Beni Culturali Soc. Coop. - Nergal Consulting Srl - Xtrust Srl, in collaboration with the Capitoline Museums. Zètema Progetto Cultura museum services.

Through an advanced application on natural user interface, with multimedia-like storytelling accompanying the dynamic animation, there will be textual insights into the pictorial technique, the main characters depicted and how over time the Hall, formerly known as the Emperors’ Drawing Room, was enriched with monuments, statues and inscriptions.

The Visea project is installed on a totem that operates in touch-less mode, that is, without contact. It is a software designed by the authors of the project in agreement with the Direction of the Capitoline Museums that allows visitors to call up information with just the movement of their index finger(Air Push). Available to visitors in the dual language, Italian and English, users can use this new tool safely.

Capitoline Museums launch Visea, new multimedia tool that tells the story of the art of fresco painting

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