The Great Masters seen as never before! Until the 11 March, the National Museum of Science and Technology, Milan, is hosting a fascinating exhibition of some of the most famous works by Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael projected on to a maxi screen.

Innovative High Definition techniques are able to reproduce the works in all their splendour, without the loss of focus and sharpness of detail that were originally the problem of traditional photographic images. In addition, the process has revealed exciting and meticulous details scarcely visible to the naked eye.

The goddess' eye in Botticelli's Birth of Venus is barely 5 millimetres, but is now revealed in detail, with its shining pupil and long eyelashes. More astonishing still is the tiny 2 mm rose fluttering in the air to the right of Venus' shoulder, which has been painted petal by petal. Art critics have been even more impressed with the revelation of details in the background of Leonardo's Annunciation, where we are now able to make out the 4 mm city, complete with towers and port, hitherto virtually invisible.

The exhibition is part of a project organized by the HALTA DEFINIZIONE in collaboratiion with the Utet publishing house of Novara to promote Italian works of art abroad. Until June, Botticelli's Spring can be admired in New York, projected in H D onto the 180 sqm facade of the Bulgari boutique in New York's Fifth Avenue, while Leonardo's Last Supper adorns the cover of this month's National Geographic magazine.

For information:  www.haltadefinizione.com