The Sistine Chapel is more dazzling, and its artwork better preserved, due to recently completed lighting and ventilation system upgrades.
The three million euro ($3.77 million) renovation included the installation of 7,000 specially-designed LED lamps, and a state-of-the-art ventilation system, according to Yahoo News.
The project was funded through European Union funds and Vatican donations.
Fabertechnica founder Marco Frascarolo discussed the innovativeness of the chapel’s new lighting system.
“The LEDs have a color spectrum specifically designed with the pigmentation of the frescoes in mind to ensure the light faithfully reflects the original colours, as the artists intended,” he explained. Fabertechnica was one of the companies that designed the new system.
“As each LED can be tuned to a different color, we spent long nights in the chapel with the Vatican Museum curators, trying out different mixes of red, blues, whites… trying to get it just right.”
Eight color samples are usually selected to create an LED system. For the Sistine Chapel project, 276 samples were analysed.
The chapel ceiling and “The Last Judgment,” both created by Renaissance artist Michelangelo, are two of the most famous paintings in the world. The lighting system installed in the 1980s cast shadows over some of the chapel’s artworks, but the LEDs illuminate the stunning frescoes…Read More
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