Laboratorio Museotecnico Goppion
Laboratorio museotecnico Goppion, founded in 1952, is a manufacturer of display systems for museums. It is a centre for research into both the technical questions related to the museum world (engineering and techniques for the protection and the preservation of works of art and the most suitable method by which they may be displayed) as well as the subjects of museography and museology. The Laboratorio museotecnico Goppion has made the cases for the Mona Lisa at the Louvre, the Crown Jewels in London, and the Multiversity Galleries of Museum of Anthropology at UBC in Vancouver. Indeed, the Annali have been published by the company with contributions from curators, museum directors, cultural superintendents and designers. Study days have been organised in collaboration with the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and the Ministry for the Arts and Cultural Heritage. Laboratorio museotecnico Goppion headquarters is in Trezzano sul Naviglio Milan. Exhibits Major exhibits created: * ...
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Mona Lisa
The ''Mona Lisa'' ( ; it, Gioconda or ; french: Joconde ) is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, it has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world". The painting's novel qualities include the subject's enigmatic expression, the monumentality of the composition, the subtle modelling of forms, and the atmospheric illusionism. The painting has been definitively identified to depict Italian noblewoman Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. It is painted in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel. Leonardo never gave the painting to the Giocondo family, and later it is believed he left it in his will to his favored apprentice Salaì. It had been believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506; however, Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as 1517. It was ...
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