The photo project of the Sistine Chapel is very detailed, showing individual brushstrokes.

This mural was created by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo and is located on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. (? Creative Lab/Shutterstock) After collecting 270,000 digital photo frames in five years, researchers took a lot of photos for every corner and crevice of the Sistine Chapel, which will be used to help protect and restore historical sites. According to news reports,

According to Reuters, it has been several decades since the last time the whole Sistine Chapel was photographed. At that time, digital photography was still in its infancy, and the building had been reconstructed pixel by pixel in a series of photos. Everything from Michelangelo's famous murals to the mosaic floor of the church was photographed in great detail. According to Reuters, these will be used to help future restoration projects.

"In the future, this will let us know the state of every centimeter of the church, just like today, 20 17," Antonio Paolucci, former director of the Vatican Museum, told the Reuters reporter. [Gallery: Hidden Gems in Renaissance Art]

These photos will be used in the restoration project of the Vatican Museum, and will also be printed into a set of three volumes with a total of 870 pages. According to Reuters, this work was created by Vatican Museum and Italian high-end art publisher scrita Maneant * * *(scrita Maneant According to Reuters, due to the limited print run of 1999, the price of this equipment is about 12700 USD (12000 Euro), and it will be sold to libraries and collectors.

The photography team used a special telescope lens to capture the details needed for the complete photographic record of the Sistine Chapel, which is equivalent to 30 megabytes of information. In contrast, according to Kelly Brown, assistant professor and academic director of the applied information management program at the University of Oregon, 30TB of data can store about 5 10000 hours of music. According to Reuters, the photographer also used a 33-foot-high (10 meter) portable scaffold to realize artistic details, such as Michelangelo's famous church ceiling mural.

According to Reuters, the resulting photos are very detailed and the brush strokes are clearly visible.

"We use special post-production software to obtain the depth, intensity, warmth and nuance of colors, with an accuracy rate of 99.9%," Giorgio Armaroli, the head of Scripta Maneant, told Reuters that future restorers would take these as their standards.

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