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Article: Technofile
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 25, 1996
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A few years after Giovanni Bellini completed The Feast of the
Gods, its owner Alfonso D'Este, Duke of Ferrara, had the painting
altered by Titian. Its current owner, the National Gallery of Art
in Washington DC, has given it a new frame: a hyperframe mounted on
a CD- Rom.
The disk - "an explorative and educational insight" into this
single work of art - carries two principal narratives: that
depicted in the painting itself, and the story of the forensic
investigations into the history of its alterations. It poses the
question of why the Duke felt inclined to order the reworking of
what we now call a masterpiece, and induces the question of what a
digital frame does for a great work of art.
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