LEONARDO: SHAPING THE FUTURE … 500 Years of vision
Immersive digital exhibit, showcasing Gigapixel images in 8K, up to 28350×40160 pixels, made of over fourteen of Leonardo da Vinci’s works comprising among others: the universally renowned “Portrait of an Old Man” (also known as the Self Portrait of Leonardo), the “Head of a Young Woman” (Study for the Angel in the “Virgin of the Rocks”), often described as the “Mona Lisa of drawings,” the notable manuscript, “Codex on the Flight of Birds” (18 pages with studies and 167 drawings), donated by Theodor Sabachnikov to King Humbert I in 1893, containing Leonardo’s drawings of flying machines, including the ornithopter, a flying machine with flapping wings, and the Hidden Portrait, Leonardo da Vinci’s alleged self-portrait discovered under one of the pages of the “Codex on the Flight of Birds”.
Through the LSF-500 Project, the audience experience an immersive journey through Leonardo’s prodigious polymathic research and visions in art, science and engineering.
Project Credits:
- Curator+ Concept: Franz Fischnaller
- Project Partners and collaborators: Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali, Istituto Centrale per il Restauro e la Conservazione del Patrimonio Archivistico e Librario (ICRCPAL), Rome, Italy
- Director: Dr. Maria Letizia Sebastiani
- high-resolution photographs (Gigapixel) of Leonardo’s works presented through LSF-500 Project in Deep Space 8K during the Ars Electronica Festival 2019 (AEC),are courtesy of ICRCPAL.
- Photo credits: © Alfredo Corrao – IRCPAL/MiBAC, https://www.fotobeniculturali.com and T.E.A.; “PROGETTO OPERE DI LEONARDO” of the Istituto Centrale Per Il Restauro e la Conservazione del Patrimonio Archivistico e Librario
- Musei Reali Torino, Torino, Italy
- Director: Dr. Enrica Pagella; the Photographs (3000×2000 and 300 dpi) of Leonardo’s works + Renderings and image simulations delivered for press release and website of Ars Electronica Festival 2019, are courtesy of of MiBAC – Musei Reali – Biblioteca Reale, Torino.
- Photo credits: ©copyright of MiBAC – Musei Reali – Biblioteca Reale, Torino, Italia. Photo by Ernani Orcorte.
- The 14 Leonardo’s original works showcased in the LSF-500 Project are ©copyright of MiBAC – Musei Reali – Biblioteca Reale, Torino.
- The collection, preserved in the Royal Library, rarely shown to the public, consist of thirteen works purchased by King Charles Albert in 1840, dating from the period between 1488 to 1515 and the manuscript, Codex on the Flight of Birds, donated by Theodor Sabachnikov to King Humbert I in 1893.
