Art treasures from Florence are online in high resolution

Rome - The painting The Birth of Venus by the Renaissance giant Sandro Botticelli and five other artistic gems from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, including works by the Baroque master Caravaggio and the Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci, can be viewed online by art lovers, and in very high resolution. This was reported by the AP agency.
    With a mouse click, it is possible to zoom in on details of the painting that are usually not accessible during a physical viewing due to safety distances.
    The images have a resolution of up to 28 billion pixels, said Vincenzo Mirarchi, director of the Italian company Haltadefinizione, which digitized the paintings and placed them on the internet this week, according to AP. This is said to be about 3000 times more than the resolution of a standard digital camera.
    Haltadefinizione placed Leonardo's painting The Last Supper online in very high resolution three years ago. However, the technology has advanced since then; details can now be captured down to a hundredth of a millimeter.
    In Caravaggio's painting of the Roman god of wine Bacchus, for example, one can reportedly discover traces of the artist's small self-portrait in the wine decanter.
    Sandro Botticelli is one of the key figures of the Florentine Renaissance. In the painting The Birth of Venus from 1486, he captured the goddess of beauty and love in a shell, as if she is "surfing" on the sea waves to the shore. The Birth of Venus, which, like his other painting Primavera (Spring), adorns the Florentine Gallery, is among the most frequently reproduced works of world painting.

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