Cappella di Eleonora
Heritage & Culture
Florence | Italy
2010
Photo
Gianni Biagi
On occasion of “Florens 2010”, the Biennial of Cultural Heritage and Landscape, Targetti created a new lighting installation to reveal one of the most prestigious places in the city, the magnificent Chapel of Eleonora in Palazzo Vecchio. As a result of a joint effort between the company, the City of Florence and the curators of the Museum of Palazzo Vecchio, the lighting installation aims at showing the extraordinary chromatic richness of one of the undisputed masterpieces of the sixteenth century: the frescoes by Agnolo Bronzino for the chapel built by Cosimo I de’ Medici as a private place of worship for his wife, Eleonora di Toledo.
The amazing results come from the OPTAGON lighting system, a sophisticated technology perfected by Targetti’s Research and Development Department. The combined use of optics with innovative octagonal shapes with new generation LEDs and a complex digital device for light flow management guarantee and certify an unrivalled colour yield of the lit surfaces. The chapel’s new lighting design also brings significant advantages in terms of preservation (the exact control of the light emitted prevents heat or dangerous UV rays from interfering with the frescoes) and drastically reduces maintenance on the fixtures.
