Founded in 1999 and based at the Francesco Cavazza Institute for the Blind, it is the result of a research project initiated in 1995 at the Association School of Applied Sculpture regarding access for visually impaired people to painting. The collection includes about forty pieces, among them three-dimensional reproductions in perspective bas-relief of famous paintings, technical reliefs, copies of Renaissance reliefs, preparatory boards for the concept of historical style, boards functional to the understanding of perspective and categories of representation, and educational-methodological records translated into Braille code, aimed at the proper understanding of the formal, aesthetic, and historical values of the works. To facilitate the comprehension of the works and ease their tactile reading, the bas-reliefs are arranged on easels and lecterns placed on tables, with seating stations and supports for the records. The visually impaired can also use photographic reproductions of the paintings translated into bas-relief. Works by Giotto, Cimabue, Botticelli, Piero della Francesca, Andrea Mantegna, Leonardo da Vinci, Ludovico Carracci, Titian, Caravaggio, Jacques-Louis David, Auguste Renoir, De Chirico, Katsushika Hokusai have been reproduced.
Information about Anteros Tactile Museum of Ancient and Modern Painting
Via Castiglione, 71,
40121 Bologna (Bologna)
051332090
istituto@cavazza.it
https://www.cavazza.it
Source: MIBACT
