The North Carolina Museum of Art recently opened a new exhibition in collaboration with a Duke University research group, Image Processing for Art Investigation (IPAI), headed by Professor Ingrid Daubechies. A group from Wired! traveled to Raleigh to tour the exhibit with the museum’s head conservator, Bill Brown, and our own member of the project team, Ed Triplett. The exhibit tells the story of a fourteenth-century Italian altarpiece, its conservation, and scholars’ attempts to understand how it was made through modern recreation. In addition to the altarpiece itself, the narrative is shared with museum goers through digital models, videos, and material displays. Triplett contributed to a 3D digital rendering of the altarpiece that simulates how the altarpiece may have appeared at the time of its creation.

The exhibition will be open through March 5, 2017. Read more about the project’s development here.

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Photos by Caroline Bruzelius & Lee Sorensen.