The Multispectral Digitization of Mona Lisa at 240 M Pixels. To watch this 12 mn video, click on this image

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How to make the checkup of a painting ?
Lumiere Technology presents  the multispectral high definition digitization system for Fine Arts.
 

Lumiere Technology's digital mastery leads the way for museums, galleries and private collectors to present their world's master-works in astonishing detail, complementing the originals knowlegde in the visible and invisible as never before

Imagine on a huge 165 cm (65 inch) plasma screen, a master-work from your collection revealed  at 240 Mega Pixels definition from UV to Infrareds and compared side by side with the original thanks to the astonishing results of its multispectral digitization !

Examples of Lumiere Technology's digitization from public and private collections could be  presented on this website from the works of Chagall, Fragonard, Audubon, Latour, Renoir, including Picasso's "La Vie",  Van Gogh's "The Roadmenders" digitized at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the 2 masterpieces "les Vieilles" and "Les Jeunes" by Goya from the Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, "The Escape in Egypt" by Poussin, the 2 versions of the Bedroom of Arles by Van Gogh, one at the Art Institute of Chicago the other at the Van Gogh Musem of Amsterdam, etc. Today  Lumiere Technology invites you to watch a facinating demonstration of its advanced technology, based on the  world most renowned masterpiece, DaVinci's Mona Lisa,  at the Louvre in Paris., and The Lady with an Ermine, at the Czartoryski Museum in Krakow.

Scanning the Mona Lisa with the Multispectral Camera: a report from National 
Geographic TV Chanel - Parthenon Entertainment with comments by Pr .Martin Kemp 
& Pascal  Cotte.
  
AFP : In Poland a team of French experts is studying a picture by Leonardo da Vinci and making some unexpected discoveries. The painting is the Lady with an Ermine in Krakow's Czartoryski museum. The team has invented a camera which makes it possible to inspect the canvas minutely without touching it and discover details invisible to the naked eye.
   

Lumiere Technology's digital magic restores original colors with an unequalled colorimetric precision, brings out from the infrareds the underlying sketches, and from the false color infrareds reveals the painter's pallet.  Lumiere Technology's innovations are a true revolution for the world of art, providing art experts with a unique tool for the study and restoration of works which until now, could not been seen with such exceptional definition.

Lumiere Technology sharpens our vision, deepens our knowledge, and provides the most advanced tools to date for collectors, experts, conservationists, curators, to better appreciate, study, compare, reproduce and preserve the masterworks that we shall pass down to future generations.

Lumiere Technology has achieved the greatest fidelity for the preservation and the reproduction of pictorial artworks, to the happiness of connoisseurs and professionals for a better knowledge of History of Art
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To have a look on our vision online at 240 Mega Pixels

Samples of Multispectral Digitization :click on these images  following instructions :
Click on the paintings beside, then click on left for zooming, on right for un-zooming, you can also scroll on the image .
In the corner right click on the button to see it on your full screen.
Enjoy and contact us, we can make the same with your entire collection !

Pr. Martin Kemp introduces  a rediscovered major work by Leonardo da Vinci
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Oxfordshire Museum

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