The Mona Lisa is illuminated in the Louvre with Led technology from Toshiba Lighting

The latest Led technology from Toshiba Lighting, Lighting Division of the Japanese company, It is now responsible for illuminating with 34 LEDs hidden in the frame of the emblematic portrait of the Mona Lisa, at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Toshiba Lighting has developed an innovative lamp of Led technology that currently illuminates the enigmatic portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci, the Mona Lisa in the Louvre Museum of Paris, with the installation of 34 Led systems hidden in the frame that protects the paint.

This project is added to the one carried out last year by the lighting division of the Japanese company, when he illuminated the famous exterior pyramid that gives access to the Louvre, and that now extends to the interior of the museum, illuminating the famous oil painting of the Mona Lisa and the Red Room of this gallery.

Thanks to this Led technology, visitors can better appreciate the colors of da Vinci's portrait, since the change of color caused by the protective glass of the paint and the reflections of the ambient light is compensated, with better visualization.

In addition to faithfully reproducing the original colors, Toshiba Lighting has integrated new optical systems that allow to offer a uniform illumination of the entire fabric and an innovative control system, thanks to which the museum can adjust the light power with maximum precision to ensure that the lighting is always as faithful as possible to the original colors of the painting..

This is the first time that the Louvre museum uses Toshiba's Led technology to illuminate the interior of its rooms. For this project, The company has used a new generation of lamps, Accessories and lighting systems that improve the display of paint colors, suppress UV and IR radiation, In addition to significantly reducing electricity consumption.

Led in the Red Room

The lighting project with Led technology of Toshiba Lighting has also been extended to the so-called Red Room of the Parisian art gallery, in which large-format paintings representative of the French nineteenth century are exhibited and one of the busiest and most visited.

In the Red Room have been installed fluorescent Led and dimming low consumption downlights that, as in the portrait of the Mona Lisa, Improve the display of paint colors, suppress ultraviolet and infrared radiation and give uniformity of light to the room.

The ceremony of lighting the new Led lighting of the Mona Lisa and the Red Room, carried out at the beginning of this month of June, was attended by Hidejiro Shimomitsu, Executive Vice President, Toshiba Corporation, and Herve Barbaret, Director General of the Louvre Museum, to which they went 480 guests from all over Europe.

The Louvre Museum and Toshiba have had a collaboration agreement since June 2010. During this time, The Japanese company, through its French delegation, It has been responsible for the renovation of the lighting of the pyramid of access to the gallery and the pyramids; the Colbert Pavilion (December 2011) and Cour Napoleon (May 2012).

Thanks to these lighting projects based on Toshiba's technology, The gallery has achieved savings in electricity consumption outside the 73%. This ongoing collaboration, in such a way that by the middle of 2014 will be ready a new phase of this project in which will be illuminated with Led technology of the Japanese company the courtyard Cour Carrée of the museum and the Napoleon hall.