Leonardo superstar, also online, with a peak of views that recalls the numbers of the inauguration of 2019 when, after four years of restoration, the most secret of the halls of the Castello Sforzesco, where the genius of Vinci worked in 1498 to create a magnificent Representation room for Duke Ludovico il Moro, reopened to the public showing proudly the new discoveries.
Thanks to a collaboration with GoogleArts & Culture, in fact, on the milanocastello.it website (media gallery section), thematic stories and insights dedicated to individual works and to the museum rooms are available to users.
In the richness of the materials to be discovered calmly, the Sala delle Asse to which the Municipality has dedicated a separate site built with HOCLAB, an interdisciplinary laboratory of the DEIB, is worth a visit.
Visiting saladelleassecastello.it in fact there are dozens of videos, in which a narrating voice reconstructs the history of the fortress, the events of the Sala, probably never finished by Leonardo like many of his other works, the transformation of the Castle into a barracks, the restorations nineteenth-century by Luca Beltrami when for the first time traces of paint were identified on the vault, the first restorations, the lightening of the fifties up to recent works when traces of the preparatory drawing of what in the artist's project was to be a great mulberry arbor.
Brief interviews with restorers explain modern techniques, discoveries and the meaning of the findings of part of a decoration that amazes with its complexity.
Link: saladelleassecastello.it