Word: colalucci
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...Sistine Chapel project was a breakthrough that made believers of the skeptics. Even the Vatican's chief restorer, Gianluigi Colalucci, concedes that future computers will recall in an instant visual information that used to require years of research, including, he adds with a laugh, "the errors we are making now." But more important, the restoration marked the beginning of the Italian art establishment's love affair with technology. Nowadays, computers linked up to gamma-ray detectors, infrared cameras and thermographic sensors are turning up in art-restoration projects all across Italy, from the vast ruins of Pompeii to the crowded...
...giant nudes, the prophets and the sibyls, and the narrative of the Old Testament. The last four years are reserved for The Last Judgment. In all, it will have taken the Vatican's small team of restorers (headed by the chief of its painting- restoration laboratory, Gianluigi Colalucci) longer to clean the 13,000 sq. ft. of fresco than it took Michelangelo to paint...