The Technique

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The Technique

Pictography is not just any technique

PICTOGRAPHY: THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN ANCIENT GENIUS AND CONTEMPORARY TECHNOLOGY

It all began with a series of fascinating questions: if Leonardo da Vinci had access to a computer, how would he have used it for his art? And if Raphael had known modern printing tools, would he have used them in his workshop?

From these questions, our solution was born. By deeply studying ancient techniques, pictorial recipes, and the slow working processes of the Masters of the past, while simultaneously evaluating the best contemporary technologies available to us, we embarked on a long journey. We experimented, tried, and tried again tirelessly, until we created an exclusive patent: Pictography. The result is the ability to replicate their exact aesthetic quality, the vibration of light, and, above all, to guarantee an identical durability across the centuries.

Pictography is not a simple technique, but the culmination of research that has lasted for over thirty years and is renewed day after day. It was conceived with the ambitious goal of reproducing any painting with an absolute scientific methodology, through the exclusive use of the materials and recipes employed in the creation of the originals, regardless of the historical period or artistic genre.

THE MAGIC OF THE WORKSHOP: THE ARTIST'S TOUCH AND PIGMENTS

While technology provides us with the absolute precision of the composition, it is human sensitivity that breathes soul into the artwork. The process always begins with a raw support prepared by hand, upon which technology traces the exact imprint. But it is at this point that the true magic begins.

As in an authentic Renaissance studio, our master painters intervene by hand on the artwork. We exclusively use natural pigments, earths, oxides, and historical binders, prepared in our laboratory according to the dictates of old art treatises.

Every glaze of color, every single vibrant detail, right up to the complex reproduction of the craquelé and the aging patina, is executed with masterful manual skill. It is this synergy between the infallibility of the scientific method and the emotion of the human touch that transforms each of our creations into a unique masterpiece.



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06012 Città di Castello, Italy
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