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Thursday, December 3, 2009
Colors of Da Vinci – レオナルドの色彩
フランスのリュミエール社が開発したマルチスペクトルカメラを使ってダビンチの絵がコンピュータで修復される作業をテレビ番組で見た。僕はこの話にかなり興奮した。まず何の絵の具が使われたかが特定され、それに従ってオリジナルの色を再現し、続いてニスによる経年の色焼けを取り除く。同時にひび割れや傷も修復する。こうして「白テンの女」ではヴェールの模様のディテールやテンの毛並みの緻密さがはっきりと姿を現し、我々は絵が本来持っていた若いすがすがしさを目の辺りに認識することになる。同様にルーブルの協力を得て「モナリザ」の復元に挑戦、この結果は画期的と言えるほど素晴らしいものだった。
僕としてはこの成果をビデオディスプレイという限界のある出力ではなく、何らかのレプリカという現実的な形に是非して欲しいと思う。例えば鳴門の大塚国際美術館にはこうした世界の名作を陶板というレプリカにして展示しているが、復元後の新しいデータで陶板を焼き直してはどうだろうか。
I saw a TV program in which Da Vinci’s paintings were restored in the computer processing with the help of a multi-spectral camera developed by Lumière, a French company. I was extremely excited with this. From the captured data, they first identified which oil colors were used on the canvas and adopted the colors from the original material. Secondly, the brownish effect of varnish through hundreds of years was eliminated. Then finally, the cracks were also removed. In this way, “Lady with an Ermine” now reveals the detail patterns of her veil as well as the finess of the ermine’s fur, and one can realize the vivid and young atmosphere in the original. The same effort was applied to “Mona Lisa” in corporation with Louvre, and the result was fantastic like an epoch.
If I may speak, I would wish someone reproduces this achievement in a more concrete form of replica rather than on the computer monitor display with limited technological specifications. For example, in Naruto City is Ohtsuka International Museum where they create replicas of world’s asset of arts on ceramic boards and display them. They should be ready to replicate one using the newly achieved graphic data through the work of the restoration.
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