Raphael’s Frescoes

A webinar of the #Raffaello500 series with Marco Leona, Head of Scientific Research at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Antonio Sgamellotti, Accedemia dei Lincei Fellow, and Virginia Lapenta, Chief Curator at Villa Farnesina.

The series of webinars offered by the network of Italian Cultural Institutes of US and Canadacontinues with a conversation on the execution technique and materials employed by Raphael on his fresco paintings, in comparison with the most up-to-date scientific investigations carried out during recent restorations.

Most notably, the conversation will focus on Raphael’s work in the Loggia of Cupid and Psyche at Villa Farnesina in Rome, on the heels of a digital project developed by Antonio Sgamellotti and Virginia Lapenta, in collaboration with the ISTI-CNR Visual Computing Lab. The digital results of the project have been recently made available online, providing an amazingly close look at the frescoes made by Raphael and his workshop on the Loggia domed ceiling.