The documentary Sala 5 – Raphael’s Cartoon Room, a short film made by The Blink Fish about Stefano Boeri Architetti’s project for the Raphael’s Cartoon Room in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan, is participating in The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival, held May 15-19 at the Shedd Institute in Eugene, Oregon (United States).
The festival, which initially started as a film exhibition, has become a meeting place with the aim of promoting and celebrating among the world’s best films for the cultural heritage genre, showcasing the best film productions.
The film Room 5 – Raphael’s Cartoon Room is among the 27 films chosen for the competition.
The Cartoon made by Raphael is the largest ever survived (measuring 2.85 meters by 804 centimeters), and arrived at the Ambrosiana in 1610 to return there, after various sales and vicissitudes, only in the 1960s.
At the end of the long restoration – coordinated by a prestigious Scientific Committee composed of the College of Doctors of the Ambrosian Library and Experts from the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione e il Restauro, the Vatican Museums, the Superintendence of Milan and the Conservation and Restoration Center “La Venaria Reale” – the masterpiece was placed in a new display case that consists of an imposing protective glass pane as large as the work itself (8 meters wide by 3 meters high for a total area of 24 square meters), achieving the record for the largest single-sash display case in the world.
For more information: https://www.archaeologychannel.org/events-guide/tac-international-film-festival/international-film-festival-2024