Pascal Cotte, Lumiere Technology founder
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Collaborations – Discoveries – Videos – Newspapers
The real revolution that Pascal Cotte offers is to be able to study artworks in depth. For instance, studying the painting in the reality of their pigments, without touching them, thus without damaging them, since all researches are done on a digital file.
« ✅ What is new is that the scientific analysis of the paintings brings an improvement in the knowledge of the techniques used by the painters.
Any curator, expert, or private collector will have very easy access to the invisible of his painting. For example, he will be able at leisure to explore it by enlarging it, without losing definition, discover the underlying drawings, see at a glance the restorations already carried out, plan which ones to do.
Indeed, he will have the most beautiful image ever made of his painting before his eyes, and behind this image, a real scientific approach.
« ✅ The multispectral camera is a major invention, as it allows France to take the lead in a policy of digitization and conservation of the world’s pictorial heritage, while Google does not seem to be interested in this area… »
Collaboration with major centers of expertise :
Major institutes collaborate with our specialized team, while recognizing our disruptive approach with traditional methods of expertise.
- C2RMF (French museums research and restoration center)
- London National Gallery
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Cleveland Museum of Arts
- Bologna University
Pascal Cotte’s discoveries
- Mona Lisa : The most famous Leonardo da Vinci’s painting in the world exhibited at the Louvre.
Lots of discoveries with the digital analysis of the iconic painting.
Find out how scanning under protection works.
See the study - Lady with an Ermine
The most significant example … because scientific analysis has unambiguously proven the author of this artwork. - La Bella Principessa
- La Belle Ferronière
Videos about Pascal Cotte
Télématin reportage (France 2) in the premises of the Bologna University (Italy).
Pascal Cotte’s books
Newspapers about Pascal Cotte
- Le Figaro : Sa caméra explore Vinci
- Le Point : Une Joconde peut en cacher une autre !
- L’Express : Léonard de Vinci : déjà 500 ans
- Peoria Journal Star : Breaker of da Vinci code to speak in Peoria
- WGLT News : Mona Lisa Replica Creator Visiting Peoria From Paris
- Science et Vie : Comment sait-on que la Dame à l’hermine n’en avait pas ?
- Franceinfo : “La belle princesse” serait un Léonard de Vinci. Une oeuvre …
- 20minutes.fr : Il retrouve par hasard un dessin de Leonard de Vinci dans les …
- Sympatico Actualités : Un autre visage se cacherait derrière celui de la Mona Lisa
- Télé 7 Jours : Le Mystère de la Joconde révélé (Arte) – Les 4 visages d’une …
- Daily Geek Show : 13 anecdotes insolites sur les plus grands artistes et leurs …
- Slate.fr : Un Da Vinci code dans les yeux de Mona Lisa ?
- BBC News : Hidden portrait ‘found under Mona Lisa’, says French scientist
- Sud Ouest : « La Belle Princesse »
- Le Nouvel Observateur : Un code secret dans les yeux de la Joconde ?
- Mediapart : Pascal Cotte découvreur de la Dame à l’Hermine de Léonard de Vinci
- Mediapart : Querelle sur Léonard de Vinci …
- Futura Sciences : Les secrets du sfumato de la Joconde mis au jour
- TRTFrancais.com : Vraies couleurs de la Joconde
- FRANCE 24 : El coronavirus ¿cambiará la producción, el consumo y el …
- The Korea Herald : French art analysis firm lashes out against Korean …
- Le Parisien : La Joconde va-t-elle voyager dans d’autres musées ?
- International Business Times UK : Secrets of the Mona Lisa: Forensic examination
- Live Science : Lurking Beneath the ‘Mona Lisa’ May Be the Real One
- ICI.Radio-Canada.ca : Léonard de Vinci: la science de l’art
- Telegraph.co.uk (April 11th 2010): La Bella Principessa by Martin Kemp & Pascal Cotte
- Corriere Quotidiano (June 30th 2020): Faux ou chef-d’oeuvre ? La Belle Princesse