(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 1 - Caravaggio masterpiece Judith
Beheading Holofernes has turned tactile for the blind in Rome's
National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini.
From Wednesday on, visually challenged visitors will be able to
trace the immortal lines of the pre-Baroque chiaroscuro master
with their fingertips thanks to an innovative 3-D reproduction
produced by a Blender programme from a photo by the Architalab
studio.
The studio has already done similar projects for masterpieces at
the Capitoline Museums, the Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia, the
Galleria Nazionale, the Museo Bilotti, the Museo Pigorini and
the Museo Lavinium.
Judith Beheading Holofernes is a painting of the biblical
episode by Caravaggio, painted in c. 1598-1599 or 1602, in
which the widow Judith stayed with the Assyrian general
Holofernes in his tent after a banquet then decapitated him
after he passed out drunk in order to save the city of Betulia.
The painting was rediscovered in 1950 and is part of the
collection of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome.
The new show is called "Tactile Emotions: Judith Beheading
Holofernes by Caravaggio, The Fingertips Tell Their Tale".
Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da
Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (29 September 1571 - 18
July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of
his artistic life.
During the final four years of his life he moved between Naples,
Malta, and Sicily until his death.
His paintings have been characterized by art critics as
combining a realistic observation of the human state, both
physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, which
had a formative influence on Baroque painting. (ANSA).
Caravaggio work turns 'tactile' for the blind
Fingertips Tell Tale project for Judith Beheading Holofernes