Respighi – The Adoration of the Magi – Three Botticelli Pictures (2/3)
Friday, September 11th, 2009
This is the 2nd of 3 pieces, the triptych known as “Three Botticelli Paintings” by the far too underappreciated Italian turn-of-the-century composer Ottorino Respighi.
The 3 pieces are all based on paintings by the Renassaince painter Sandro Botticelli. My personal favorite piece of Respighi’s from this composition is “The Birth of Venus”. But all are outstanding and display Respighi’s gift for combining the sounds of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, which he studied endlessly.
The piece is performed by the Philharmonia of London and conducted by Geoffrey Simon.
Enjoy!
Duration : 0:7:58
At Calit2 on the UC San Diego campus, researchers are finding new ways to interact with data. Here, project scientist Jurgen Schulze demonstrates a 3D interactive tour of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Adoration of the Magi”, using a Flock of Birds virtual-reality system and software that permits the viewer to “walk into” the painting. As researcher and “art detective” Maurizio Seracini demonstrates, taking steps toward the projection of the painting allows the user to move from the surface of the Adoration to the layer displaying an infrared image of the painting — which displays the original “underdrawing” by da Vinci. Seracini’s research confirmed that while da Vinci drew the underdrawing, others applied the sometimes erratic brown hue that characterizes the painting today on display in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery.