Major digitization project for the National Gallery of Umbria

The Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria in Perugia, while waiting to reopen its doors to the public in July after intense work to refurbish its collections, is carrying out no less important work to digitize its heritage, with the aim of further ensuring its diagnostics, protection and enhancement. The project is being presented today in Ferrara at the XXVII edition of Restauro - International Exhibition of Cultural and Environmental Heritage.

The digitization project of the National Gallery of Umbria, by Haltadefinizione, a company specializing in the sector, concerns more than one hundred works of art including paintings, statues, sculptures, altarpieces and furnishings. Among the selected masterpieces are important works from the Middle Ages and Renaissance by artists such as Arnolfo di Cambio, Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Gentile da Fabriano, Beato Angelico, Benozzo Gozzoli, Giovanni Boccati, Piero della Francesca and Umbrian artists including Benedetto Bonfigli, Bartolomeo Caporali, Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, Perugino, Pinturicchio and their students and followers.

A major acquisition campaign has been underway at the Perugia museum since March; among the technologies deployed are not only gigapixels, but also UV and IR multispectral surveys, 3D acquisitions to map statues and objects. Three set ups are working at the same time to carry out the digitization of the masterpieces of the National Gallery of Umbria, a project that perfectly summarizes how the technologies developed by Haltadefinizione can be applied to any type of artwork obtaining the highest possible quality. The Gallery’s two frescoed rooms will be digitized with nodal head shooting techniques capable of capturing the entire room at 360°, which can then be enjoyed with 360° multimedia viewers that will allow the image to be enlarged dozens of times without ever losing definition.

The ultimate goal is to provide the museum with a digital archive of images in very high definition, in order to meet all the needs of online and offline digital enhancement, cataloging, reproduction, documentation of the state of preservation and study. The digital acquisition of the works is carried out with different hardware systems and returned with processing software methods developed by Haltadefinizione in collaboration with the technological partner Memooria, which allow to reach very high resolutions, maintaining an excellent level of sharpness, very low distortion values and faithful colors, thanks also to the use of specific chromatic targets.

Major digitization project for the National Gallery of Umbria

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