The Digitisation of the Panorama of Murten is about to start

2023 EPFL - After two months of conservation and restoration work, Louis Braun's monumental work, created in 1893 on some 1000 m2 of canvas, is about to being digitised. The process will generate the largest digital image ever created and will allow for unprecedented immersive and interactive viewing experiences. Immersive experience par excellence, the art of the panoramic painting had its glory days in the 19th century. However, exhibiting these monumental works required dedicated buildings (rotunda). With the advent of cinema, this media form disappeared. Few panoramas survived. The situation is about to change with regard to Louis Braun's Panorama of the Battle of Murten, created in 1893.