Bari: two Digital Art Works by Ambrogio Lorenzetti at the Basilica of San Nicola

On the occasion of the arrival of Pope Francis and the Patriarchs at the Basilica of St. Nicholas in Bari, Save the Artistic Heritage will exhibit two DAW®ï¸ - Digital Art Work by Ambrogio Lorenzetti depicting moments from the life of St. Nicholas(Miracle of the Poor Young Girls, St. Nicholas Consecrated Bishop of Myra, Miracle of the Demonized Child, and Miracle of the Grain). These are reproductions of masterpieces of art history that allow the work to be viewed in its digital version even outside the museum where it is kept.

The two works, which can already be visited by the public, will be placed in the Basilica next to the statue of St. Nicholas, where Pope Francis’Ecumenical Meeting with the Heads and Representatives of the churches and ecclesial communities of the Middle East will take place.

Originally in the church of St. Proculus in Florence, the panels dedicated to the Miracles of St. Nicholas of Bari are dated around 1330, have been in the Uffizi since 1919, and were displayed at the recent major monographic exhibition that Siena dedicated to its illustrious painter.

The two original panels measure 96 x 52.5 cm, respectively. (about 48 x 51, each panel) and 92 x 49 (about 46 x 48, each panel). They are tempera on panel paintings kept in the ’300 Sienese room of the Florentine Uffizi Museum.

The episodes narrated are characterized by an exceptional descriptive naturalness, with multiple devices and the already palpable reduction of the gilded background, employed in increasingly marginal areas and thus giving more prominence to the architecture, which here occupies much of the background.

The particular attention to every detail must have caused great surprise in the Florentine milieu, accustomed to the essential simplicity of Giotto’s painting.

The cycle was created by Ambrogio Lorenzetti during his Florentine sojourn, which from certain docu- mentations begins in 1321, the year he enrolled in theArte dei Medici e degli Speziali.

The DAW®ï¸ are digital works produced in limited series, authenticated, numbered, certified and protected by a patented digital encryption system.

The very high technological content makes them absolutely non-reproducible and guarantees their uniqueness. Each DAW®ï¸ is created with the consent of the museum that owns the original, and the proceeds from its sale are shared with the museum to support Italy’s artistic heritage.

Pictured: a detail of the Miracle of Wheat (original)

Bari: two Digital Art Works by Ambrogio Lorenzetti at the Basilica of San Nicola

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