Making cultural heritage increasingly accessible means allowing more people to know it, explore it, and build a personal relationship with art. The evolution of wearable technologies and artificial intelligence opens up new possibilities to make this experience more inclusive.
Sophia Loeb creates paintings in which landscape, abstraction and sensory experience converge. Her images move between recognition and invention, constructing environments where colour, atmosphere and matter follow an internal logic. Rather than depicting a landscape, Loeb turns it into a condition of perception—something encountered as much as seen.
The icons depict the Evangelists Matthew and Mark and are Palaiologan works dating from the 14th century. They originate from the Byzantine Church of Panagia Phorviotissa at Asinou. The icons were unlawfully removed from their place of origin following the Turkish invasion of 1974.
The Two Brothers Tondo is a key Fayum portrait from the mid-2nd century AD, housed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Italian conservators from Fabrica Conservazione e Restauro completed the restoration, preserving the painting and revealing its original details.