chiaroscuro – rising Raffaello

My contribution to Raffaello’s 500th-anniversary is an installation that gives Raffaello's most famous portraits new volumes and new spatial parameters, however starting from the shadows and lights of the paintings themselves.

• I gave a new tridimensionality to Raffaello's works using the chiaroscuro of the paintings as a parameter of spatial modification.
• Thanks to this new dimension of these works I was able to show, for the first time ever, Raffaello's paintings from a new point of view: the side one; obtaining spectacular landscapes.
• The installation is composed of a video loop with 16 animated portraits, and 16 printed pictures showing the side views of the paintings becoming landscapes.
• Raphael’s portraits in order of appearance:
• 1 Angelo Doni
• 2 La Gravida
• 3 Bindo Altoviti
• 4 Self Portrait
• 5 Self Portrait
• 6 Guidobaldo da Montefeltro
• 7 Elisabetta Gonzaga
• 8 Ritratto Virile
• 9 Maddalena Strozzi
• 10 La Muta
• 11 Baldessarre Castiglione
• 12 Dama col Liocorno
• 13 Giovane Cardinale
• 14 La Fornarina
• 15 La Bella
• 16 Papa Giulio II