The Last Supper in gigapixels: virtual journey through the details of the set table

The Lombardy Regional Museums Directorate, on the occasion of Easter, proposes in collaboration with Haltadefinitione a themed virtual tour that will accompany the public among the details of the table setting of Leonardo da Vinci’sLast Supper.

The project is part of the initiatives of the Lombardy Museums Directorate and the Museo del Cenacolo Vinciano aimed at digital communication of Leonardo’s masterpiece: the official website www.cenacolovinciano.org, an app dedicated to the visit available for free on the IOS and Android stores, and social channels Facebook and Instagram have been created in just over two years.

On the Museo del Cenacolo Vinciano website it is possible to navigate the work, with in-depth insights that accompany the visitor to immerse himself in the brushstrokes of the painting. This was made possible through gigapixel capture of the masterpiece combined with storytelling technologies developed by Haltadefinizione.

“Digital will never be able to replace the profound emotion it gives to be face to face with the work, to discover its dimensions, its spatial involvement,” emphasizes Emanuela Daffra, Regional Director Museums of Lombardy, “but this technology allows us an impossible experience: seeing up close, far beyond the limits dictated by the painting’s conservation needs, at magnifications unthinkable to the human eye that make us discover secrets of execution technique or details that usually go unnoticed. In short, they are a real enrichment of the experience.”

Among the Modenese tech company’s new projects is a cutting-edge digital platform. The tool will make it possible to amplify the user experience through multimedia storytelling capable of delving into masterpieces through personalized paths, with all the power of ultra-definition gigapixel images.

“We are happy to collaborate with the regional directorate Musei Lombardia and the Cenacolo Vinciano Museum. In 2007 the Last Supper was the second work acquired by Haltadefinizione, a 16.1 gigapixel shot that for years remained the world’s largest digital image ever made,” said Luca Ponzio, founder of the tech company. “With this new initiative dedicated to the Last Supper, we want to broaden the knowledge of the works through a new tool that allows the creation of ”stories,“ real virtual guided tours for an in-depth look at one, or more, masterpieces available in our image bank.”

Credit Haltadefinition

The Last Supper in gigapixels: virtual journey through the details of the set table

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