In the year of the bicentennial of Canova’s death, the Tersicore of the Neoclassicism Master was reproduced for the Museum of Vetulonia.
The collaboration between LITIX and major museum institutions continues in the service of digital archaeology projects and the recovery of artistic heritage.
Giacomo Massari and Filippo Tincolini, founding partners of LITIX, accepted the request of the “Isidoro Falchi” Civic Archaeological Museum in Vetulonia for a contribution to the realization of the exhibition “In Time of DANCE. In Harmony, Grace, and Beauty” by reproducing in Carrara marble the divine Tersicore, a work by Canova.
The life-size work (182 cm), representing the Muse of dance and choral song, was completed by Canova around the end of 1811. Belonging to the illustrious collector Giovanni Battista Sommariva, it was acquired by Luigi Magnani in 1984. Today it is visible in the eponymous Foundation in Parma, where LITIX technicians went to make the first 3D scan of the statue.
The execution of the work involved the two Business Units of LITIX, ROBOTOR and TORART.
The scanning of the work was essential to allow TORART’s sculptor robots to create the replica. TORART is an art workshop that combines tradition and innovation, linking respect for traditional work with a passion for the most modern technologies. TORART, in fact, uses ROBOTOR’s robots to work the stone. OR-OS, software developed internally, uses the 3D file of the work to be created to autonomously generate the program that allows the robot to work the stone independently.
“The Tersicore on display is not the banal copy of the Tersicore we admire in the Traversotolo museumo – declare Giacomo Massari and Filippo Tincolini. -. The Tersicore shaped by the robot summarizes all the values of the Canova original but lives its own life. As a replica, it has a clear function of representation and memory multiplication. We chose not to intervene on the work with any hand finishing because it would inevitably lead to chasing the goal of a faithful copy of the original, confusing copy and original.”
From today, Canova’s Tersicore also lives in a 3D file and a marble replica.
The fragility of the artistic and cultural heritage we have inherited finds in technology the solution to make accessible to everyone works destroyed by natural or human events, works that cannot be moved from their natural location, works contested due to disputes over legitimate ownership, or simply impossible to exhibit.
Reproducing a work of art for LITIX has become a mission: to preserve and enhance to pass on.
“IN TIME OF DANCE. IN HARMONY, GRACE, AND BEAUTY”
“Isidoro Falchi” Civic Archaeological Museum in Vetulonia (July 1 to November 6 2022)
An archaeological-artistic themed exhibition, featuring DANCE and the feminine declination of this extraordinary performing art, a common thread of a narrative capable of crossing the concepts of HARMONY, GRACE, and BEAUTY.
In addition to Tersicore, the exhibition features masterpieces on loan from the MANN, National Archaeological Museum of Naples, and the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara.
