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

The latest Led technology from Toshiba Lighting, lighting division of the Japanese company, from now on is in charge of illuminating 34 LEDs hidden in the frame the emblematic portrait of the Mona Lisa, at the Louvre museum in Paris.

Toshiba Lighting has developed an innovative LED technology lamp that currently illuminates the enigmatic portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci, the Mona Lisa in the Louvre museum from Paris, with the installation of 34 Led systems hidden in the frame that protect 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 outer pyramid that gives access to the Louvre, and which now extends inside the museum, illuminating the famous oil painting of the Mona Lisa and the Red Room of this art gallery.

Thanks to this LED technology, Visitors can better appreciate the colors of Da Vinci's portrait, since it compensates for the color change caused by the protective glass of the paint and the reflections of ambient light, with better visualization.

In addition to faithfully reproducing the original colors, Toshiba Lighting has integrated new optical systems that allow it to offer uniform lighting 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 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 visualization of paint colors, suppress UV and IR radiation, in addition to significantly reducing electricity consumption.

Led in the Red Room

Toshiba Lighting's LED technology lighting project has also been extended to the so-called Red Room of the Parisian art gallery, in which large-format paintings representative of the French 19th century are exhibited and one of the most popular and visited.

In the Red Room, LED fluorescents and adjustable low-consumption downlights have been installed that, just like in the Mona Lisa portrait, improve the visualization of paint colors, They suppress ultraviolet and infrared radiation and give uniformity of light to the room.

The lighting ceremony of the new Led lighting of the Mona Lisa and the Red Room, made at the beginning of this month of June, Hidejiro Shimomitsu was present, executive vice president of Toshiba Corporation, y Herve Barbaret, general director 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, has been in charge of renewing the lighting of the pyramid leading to the art gallery and the pyramids; the Colbert Pavilion (December 2011) and Cour Napoleon (May 2012).

Thanks to these lighting projects based on Toshiba technology, The art gallery has achieved savings in electricity consumption outside the 73%. This collaboration continues, so that by mid- 2014 A new phase of this project will be ready in which the Cour Carrée courtyard of the museum and the Napoleon hall will be illuminated with LED technology from the Japanese company..