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Il Giambologna in Florence 17th December 2009 - 31 st January 2010, Centro Storico di Firenze
An itinerary to discover Jean de Boulogne (1529 - 1608), known as Giambologna, author of the famous Rape of the Sabine Women. The journey, both physical and virtual, starts from Palazzo Pitti throughout the historic center of Florence on the trail of the Flemish sculptor. Centrica supplied the high resolution digitization of major works by Giambologna and took care of the website http://giambologna.comune.fi.it, where it is finally possible to browse and download the audio guide of the itinerary. The Rape of the Sabine Women, in particular, can be accessed on the web by the Virtual XLtour.
Il Giambologna in Florence web site
"Virtual Gallery" Exhibition 12th December 2009 - 31 st January 2010, Battistero S. Giovanni in Corte, Pistoia
On 12th December at 5 p.m., the "Virtual Gallery" will have its grand opening at the Bishops' Palace, organized by the Foundation Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia and Pescia and by the Soprintentenza Speciale per il Polo Museale Fiorentino. An interactive and virtual itinerary inside the Baptistery of Pistoia, to touch and explore high resolution digital images of the Crucifix of the Cathedral of Pistoia, painted in 1274 by the Florentine Coppo di Marcovaldo. In addition you can explore important works from the Galleria degli Uffizi, from Botticelli to Leonardo. The exhibition is open until 10 January 2010 and the entrance is free.
Web site Fondazione CRPT | photos  download
Uffizi Touch® at Florence Art and Restoration Fair 29th October 2009 - 31 st December 2010, Firenze, Stazione Leopolda
The most famous art Gallery worldwide is ready for your wall! All the works of art from Uffizi Gallery become zoomable in every detail. Uffizi Touch® is available to schools, universities and all art lovers. Uffizi Touch® is the first product in the world that lets you interact with very high resolution images of Uffizi Gallery with ArsTouch®. Uffizi Gallery enters in schools, homes and welcome centres.
Uffizi Touch® web site | photos  download
DIRE E FARE 28th - 31st October 2009, Firenze, Fortezza da Basso
Digital paintings at very high resolution. Centrica exhibits the technologies developed to digitize a pianting at very high resolution, present in different media (web, interactive signage, replica) at very high resolution. A replica of "Bacco" from Caravaggio is exhibited.
DIRE E FARE
Centrica invitated at the Fifth Cotec Symposium 28th October 2009, Madrid, Palazzo Reale
Centrica invited at the Fifth Cotec Symposium. The Symposium deals with three strategic issues for the Mediterranean area. One of them is related to innovation for cultural heritage conservation and valorization as a driver to the social-economical development of Italy, Spain and Portugal.
Fifth Cotec Symposium
Centrica at Lu.Be.C. 2009 22nd - 23rd October 2009, Real Collegio, Lucca
Centrica is partner of Lu.Be.C. 2009, the exhibition dedicated to new technologies for Cultural Heritage and Tourism, held at the Royal College of Lucca, October 22 to 23. The theme of this fifth edition is "Cultural Heritage, technology and tourism, between dissemination of knowledge and economic development". Centrica, at stand No. 29, presents some of the most significant projects developed in this last year for enhancing the culture and our country. On October 23, Centrica speaks at conference on "Strategies for revitalization: quality and technology" (hours 9.30 to 13.00), to emphasize the importance of technology made in Italy to enhance Italy.
Lu.Be.C. web site
ArsTouch® for "Art and Illusions" exhibition 16th October 2009 - 24 th January 2010, Firenze, Palazzo Strozzi
The exhibition "Art and Illusions" presents the theme of the trompe l'oeil in art and architecture, covering various aspects. Through ArsTouch® technology the visitor can discover the illusions in architecture, in "The private audience chamber" of The Medici Treasury and in the Corridor of Sant'Ignazio Palace: the application unveils what appears and what is real. In the web site of the exhibition you can admire high resolution images through XLimage®.
ViDiTrust at Creativity Festival 15th - 18th October 2009, Firenze, Fortezza da Basso
ViDiTrust, the Siena University spin-off focused on 'anticounterfeiting&security and cofounded by Centrica, demonstrates some cases in the wine and pharma areas. Fortezza da Basso, Padiglione Spadolini (area Macchina).
Creativity Festival
Centrica presents recent digitalizations at Italy in Japan 2009 4th October 2009, Tokyo, Istituto Italiano di Cultura.
Centrica presents last digitizations, realised for Polo Museale Fiorentino with Hitachi and MICC (works of art from Botticelli, Caravaggio, Leonardo da Vinci, Raffaello, Piero della Francesca, Fattori, Lega). Images reach the resolution of 3,6 GigaPixel each and are presented with examples of multimodal valorization through ArsTouch® and XLimage®. The Symposium is held at Italian Institute of Culture in Tokyo.
Italy in Japan 2009 | photos 
The Museum Richard Ginori: a new lease on life 3rd - 27th September 2009, Ravello, Chiostro Inferiore di Villa Rufolo
Trends/Design Section of the Ravello Festival promotes, in collaboration with the Richard Ginori and the Museum of the Shower Manufacture and under the patronage of the Second University of Naples, the exhibition "The Museum Richard Ginori: a new lease on life", dedicated to the museum of the famous porcelain company in Tuscany, founded in 1735. The exhibition will be staged in the Cloister Lower Villa Rufolo, September 3 to 27. Centrica, sponsor of the project, has produced multimedia applications in 3D with six major items in the collection of the Museum Richard Ginori and the installations ArsTouch® placed at the beginning of the show. A virtual tour that allows you to "touch" objects from all sides, choosing to dwell in detail on high resolution images accessible through XLimage®. Italian technology to provide excellence of Made in Italy.
Web site Trends/Design Section Ravello Festival | photos 
Centrica is a Sponsor of the General Assembly of Confindustria Florence 30th June 2009, Firenze, Palazzo dei Congressi
Centrica is a Sponsor of the General Assembly of Confindustria Florence with the "Madonna del Cardellino" presented in digital format, high resolution, through ArsTouch®. The digital image was produced under the project Excellence Digital Archive powered by MICC, Hitachi Ltd. and Centrica for the Superintendency for the Museums of Florence.
Confindustria Florence web site | photos 
XLimage® and the Royal Library of Belgium 25th June 2009 - 25 th June 2010, Bruxelles
The Royal Library of Belgium uses XLimage® since 2003 for displaying antique maps of its collection. This service allowed to participate in European projects as DIGMAP and to be present on different portals with maps, around two thousand. In 2008, the new version of XLimage® Flash interface, enabled the Royal Library of Belgium to put on line portal "Belgica" manuscripts and old newspapers, also accessible through the network Europeana
Belgica web site
La torre ritrovata 17th May 2009, Marciano della Chiana
Opening ceremony for restoration of historic and architectural building "Marciano Tower". Centrica presents the multimedia lab with XLphoto and ArsTouch technologies.
Forum PA 11th - 14th May 2009, Roma
"Digital Technologies in Cultural Heritage - An Excellence reference case of Polo Museale Fiorentino" is the title of an installation realized by Centrica at PA Forum inside an exhibition space of Tuscany Region and Ance Toscana (May 11th-14th, Nuova Fiera di Roma, pad. 8 - stand 2B). Masterpieces from Leonardo, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Tiziano, Raffaello and Caravaggio are "touchable" in any detail due to ArsTouch® and XLimage® technologies.
PA Forum web site | photos 
The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies 30th April 2009 - 30 th April 2010, Firenze, Villa I Tatti - Biblioteca Berenson
Centrica has started digitizing the Photolibrary with a project dedicated to photographs of Italian paintings and drawings "homeless". This category, as defined by Bernard Berenson, includes works destroyed, lost, stolen, offered on the antiquarian market and location unknown. Approximately 11,000 original will be digitally acquired by Centrica and will be accessible online in the catalogue of Harvard University, at the following link http://via.lib.harvard.edu/via/deliver/advancedsearch?_collection=via (Information relating to the image - Subject: Madonna and child - Author: Orcagna's follower - Location: Unknown)
Villa I Tatti - web site
EVA Florence. Electronic Imaging and Visual Arts 28th - 30th April 2009, Palazzo dei Congressi Firenze
Centrica presents the project "Excellence Digital Archive for Polo Museale Fiorentino", at EVA Florence 2009. The images of some of the most important works from Polo Museale Fiorentino will be presented at very high resolution, from 200 to 600 MegaPixel: "Tondo Doni ", Michelangelo, Galleria degli Uffizi; "Bacco", Caravaggio, Galleria degli Uffizi; "Madonna del Cardellino", Raffaello, Galleria degli Uffizi; "Annunciazione", Leonardo da Vinci, Galleria degli Uffizi. Soon available: "Madonna del Magnificat, Botticelli, Galleria degli Uffizi; "Venere d'Urbino", Tiziano, Galleria degli Uffizi. Project's Partners: MICC, University of Florence; DIS Project, Hitachi Ltd., Yokohama, Japan; Ufficio Ricerche, Polo Museale Fiorentino, Firenze Centrica S.r.l., Firenze.
Eva Florence web site
Galileo. Images of Universe from antiquity to telescope 13th March - 30 th August 2009, Firenze, Palazzo Strozzi
Galileo exhibition celebrates the fourth centenary of the extraordinary astronomical discoveries made by Galileo through the telescope. Through the system ArsTouch®, visitors can "touch the sky with a finger" by exploring planets and stars in an interactive and easy to use itinerary. The public can understand the various ways in which the structure of the Universe is designed. The images of Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, the stars and the Sun was kindly provided by ESA (European Space Agency). The exhibition is sponsored by Ministry for Cultural Heritage, Region of Tuscany, Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze and Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi. The Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza represents the scientific direction of the exhibition.
Web site Galileo exhibition | photos 
Centrica opens to the Greek market 19th February - 31 st December 2009, Grecia
New opportunities arise from the partnership with Aratos Technologies S.A., company specialized in advanced digital technologies, that today has become distributor of products XLimage® and XLphoto® in Greece. Aratos Technologies S.A. was founded in 1995 and is one of the first European downstream value-added services company in the space sector. It carry out value added services in the areas of Environmental Protection, Land Use and Urban Planning, Disaster Management, Agricultural sector monitoring and Security using space and satellite technologies. Centrica confirms the relevance and the dissemination of its solutions not only nationally, but also internationally.
Web site Aratos Technology SA
Pitti Immagine Uomo - ArsTouch® for SAPAF 1954 13th - 16th January 2009, Firenze
For its Pitti Immagine Uomo debut SAPAF 1954 (http://www.sapaf54.it) has chosen ArsTouch®: an intriguing user experience for Made in Italy.
Pitti Immagine Uomo | photos 
ArsTouch® at Palazzo Strozzi with EternArtemisia 24th October 2008 - 8 th February 2009, Firenze
Inside the exhibition a room is dedicated to the graphic novel EternArtemisia, ideated by Giuseppe palumbo, in a flippable touch version with ArsTouch®.
Exhibition "Caterina and Maria de' Medici: women in power"