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Lighting up the Louvre


From the moment we met at St Pancras, we knew this would be an amazing trip and one we would certainly never forget. After arriving at the Louvre for networking, food and drink, we were whisked off to a two-hour Toshiba lighting seminar where we learnt about Toshiba’s heritage and their fantastic plans for the future. Its hard to believe that only four years ago Toshiba Lighting launched in Europe and yet today Toshiba has become a key player in the European LED lamp market. The private tour of the Louvre was


incredible and the lighting used is innovative and technologically advanced (the lighting of the Mona Lisa has a CRI of 95 or more!). The lamps and luminaires developed by Toshiba have improved the colour rendering of the paintings and suppressed UV and IR radiation for the Red Room and the Mona Lisa.


One of the most innovative of fittings has been installed in front of the Mona Lisa and concealed in the shelf next to the painting. This particular lamp uses 31 LEDs and allows for compensation of colour shifting due to protective glazing and ambient lighting. The lamp includes various optical systems to frame the painting and to maintain a very high uniformity across the masterpiece.


A cleverly designed control system allows the musee du louvre to adjust the spectrum of the lamp as precisely as possible as it was developed with the highest possible fidelity to colours. The fittings used through the Red Room and for the Mona Lisa allow a great reduction of the electricity


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