Tuesday, May 19, 2020

This 44.8 Gigapixel Scan of a Rembrandt Contains Staggering Detail #ArtTuesday

We know how talented Rembrandt was but the detail is extraordinary.

via MOTHERBOARD

A museum in Amsterdam has uploaded a scan of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch painting that’s so detailed you can see individual brushstrokes and cracks in the paint. Thanks to the hyper-resolution scan, anyone can pull up the painting online and zoom in on individual features.

Painted in 1642, The Night Watch is a massive 11 feet tall and 14 feet wide. The hyper-resolution scan is part of an ongoing restoration project of The Night Watch assisted by machine learning software.

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