Caravaggio masterpiece Judith Beheading Holofernes has turned tactile for the blind in Rome's National Gallery of Ancient Art at Palazzo Barberini. From Wednesday on, visually challenged visitors will be able to trace the immortal lines of the pre-Baroque chiaroscuro master with their fingertips thanks to an innovative 3-D reproduction produced by a Blender programme from a photo by the Architalab studio.

The studio has already done similar projects for masterpieces at the Capitoline Museums, the Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia, the Galleria Nazionale, the Museo Bilotti, the Museo Pigorini and the Museo Lavinium. Judith Beheading Holofernes is a painting of the biblical episode by Caravaggio, painted in c. 1598-1599 or 1602.