Milan, 3D scanning of the Centrotavola in the Royal Palace kicks off. It will then be restored

3D scanning work on the Centrotavola (centerpiece ) at the Royal Palace in Milan, Italy, will kick off this week, which will be carried out by AerariumChain. The Centrotavola, or parterre, of the Royal Palace is one of the most significant art objects of the palace’s furnishings and dates back to 1804: it is a work by Giacomo Raffaelli (Rome, 1753 - Rome, 1836), a famous Roman mosaicist of the 18th century. The work decorated the table for the banquet that Viceroy Eugene de Beauharnais offered in honor of Napoleon on his coronation as King of Italy. It consists of three parts: a long central element of about nine meters composed of thirteen marble bases and two twin elements that were placed at the ends of the main parterre, each 1.60 meters long and each formed by two marble bases. The entire composition reaches a total of thirteen meters and consists of 242 pieces.

The 3D scanning is part of the restoration and enhancement project for this work, carried out thanks to an agreement between the Royal Palace, the City of Milan-Cultura and the Atlas Foundation in collaboration with the Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio for the Metropolitan City of Milan; is articulated in a series of operations aimed at the protection and in-depth historical-artistic study of the Centrotavola, starting from the diagnostic analysis of the constituent materials and the study of degradation, up to the internal handling in Palazzo Reale and the new permanent exhibition location in the Sala delle Quattro Colonne. Through scanning, it is possible to integrate historical, archival, and documentary information as well as all the information related to the diagnostic investigations prior to the restoration work.

AerariumChain is a technical sponsor in the creation, design and realization phase of the digital model useful to support the restoration activities and to provide the necessary basis for future 3D prints of missing elements of the work. These technologies allow the surfaces and all details of the work to be reproduced with the highest precision in a highly complex digital process.

Milan, 3D scanning of the Centrotavola in the Royal Palace kicks off. It will then be restored

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