When film director Nanni Moretti needed the Sistine Chapel reconstructed in the Cinecittà studios near Rome for his film ‘Habemus Papam’, set designer Paola Bizzarri turned to Big Image. The result is the opulent and true-to life printed set you see here.
“We had to reproduce the original backdrop of the Sistine Chapel. One- to-one, 40.9m long, 13.4m wide and 20.7m high. Never before had our German crew committed a complete existing building to material, in all printing 1,800m2 of special, untreated cotton and vinyl,” says Big Image’s Manfred Muller. “And there were only three months from the order until the delivery.”
It soon became clear that the lower part of the chapel, with its intricately folded curtains, could only be printed in the sharpest focus using inkjet, while the paintings above required a softer airbrush method. For the marble floor (hidden here) the specialists chose Dance Floor with a sealed surface.
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