A 16-billion-pixel image of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper — said to be the world’s highest-resolution photo — went online Saturday, making the masterpiece available for scrutiny by art lovers everywhere. White-robed Dominican monks opened the doors of their sacristy to unveil the high-res image of the painting on a giant screen just steps [...]
FLORENCE, Italy — Art diagnostician Maurizio Seracini has waited 30 years to get to the bottom of his biggest mystery yet: whether Leonardo da Vinci’s greatest lost fresco lies behind a wall in the Palazzo Vecchio here. Seracini’s team of 30 will scan the palazzo’s 177-foot-long wall in mid-November, looking for the Battle of Anghiari, [...]
Giambologna’s virtuoso marble statue “Rape of a Sabine” may be the latest work to head indoors because of pollution. The powerful, writhing trio has been in the Loggia dei Lanzi next to Palazzo Vecchio since Giambologna laid down his chisel in 1583. In 2001 (when I took this photo), restorer Alberto Casciani blasted the grime [...]
For Catholics who can’t remember their Hail Mary’s, there’s help: an electronic rosary. Long a joke in the tech community, two ingenious Italians are the latest to launch an e-rosary. I went to check it out a couple of weeks ago at one of the religious book stores here in Milan, where it sat on [...]
