WHAT IS CHIAROSCURO?

CHIAROSCURO is a project promoted by the "Centro Internazionale del Libro Parlato - International Centre of Spoken Book" to make art accessible to the blind. The program uses tactile images reproducing some of the paintings of the collection. The original picture is reproduced in relief for tactile scanning using transparent resin and is accompanied by an audio-guide.
On the left: the original painting Testa della Samaritana by Sebastiano Ricci and the relief image.
The technique is also used to reproduce maps of churces, buildings and naturalistic parks. The Town Museum of Belluno entered the project with eight works in its exposition.
On the right, another instance of the technique: Testa di donna from a fragment of a fresco by Pomponio Amalteo.