by
Sandro Pintus
"The ideal museum from the Trecento to our times"
A CD-Rom that covers seven centuries of art
We can
now explore History of Art with the help of a CD-Rom that takes us on
a universal journey that covers a period of seven centuries. Thanks to
the latest multimedial technology, this electronic book makes it possible
for us to discover a collection of works, ranging from the Trecento to
Contemporary Art, that we would all love to be able see united in a single
museum. Published by Mondadori New Media and created and developed by
Fabio Ratti, this CD-Rom is entitled "The ideal museum from the Trecento
to our times" and can be read with both Mac or Windows systems.
The cover page of the CD-Rom published
by Mondadori New Media |
We first enter the main room of the museum where we can find the
entrances to the seven centuries represented therein. We can pick and
choose the art we want to see at will, "fly" from Giotto to Neoclassicism,
from Cubism to Mannerism, from Dadaism to European Baroque and then move
on to Impressionism, Romanticism or the Early Renaissance. We can flit
from one period to another and are able to appreciate the art works even
more thanks to the fact that they come accompanied by background music
related to the period under examination. We can quickly pass from Marcel
Duchamp, the artist who coined the phrase "Ready-made", to reach the 17th
century and Caravaggio, then return to the 20th century, which contains
as many as six sections, ranging from Symbolism to Pop Art, with each
art work analysed in great detail. The index helps us choose the art works
or periods that we are interested in investigating so that we are able
to navigate in the direction of a dimension of temporal space of our choice.
As with most CD-Rom publications, we can also print out what we can see
on the screen where, apart from the art works, each historical period
is accompanied by a geographical map. A CD-Rom that any of us would be
delighted to have, which gives detailed information on some of the most
important works of art of our times and which History of Art teachers
would certainly find a most useful teaching aid in schools. The minimum
Windows configuration is a 486SX-33 computer, Win 3.1, with a sound card
and 256 colour SVGA; Mac instead need a 68030/25MHz, system 7.0, with
256 colours; both systems require a double speed reader with speakers.
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