The militia of Captain Frans Vanningkok, the masterpiece of the 17th-century Dutch painter Lampland, known as De Nachtwacht, is unveiled in the largest ever image of 44.8 gigapixels. You can enjoy the Rembrandt’s brushstrokes free of charge on the Internet, which you can’t taste without visiting the museum.
This work is currently on display at the Amsterdam National Gallery. When you enter the site and click on the picture, the clicked area is enlarged. When the picture is enlarged, not only the human face, but also wrinkles around the eyes, brush strokes such as oil painting, and cracks in the paint are clearly visible. You can even see what color paints the lampland applied and how.
The night view was painted on a 3.79×4.53m canvas. With oil paintings drawn 350 years ago, deterioration is a problem. This site is a project that was shot and saved at a resolution of 4,447 billion,687,500 pixels as a snapshot to prevent deterioration in the work. It is finished by connecting 528 photos in 24 rows by 22 columns and processing them into one picture through a neural network. In addition, through macrofluorescence X-ray analysis, the night view was scanned every inch, and elemental analysis, such as calcium, iron, and potassium, was conducted.
The Amsterdam National Museum of Art is closed until June 1, 2020 due to Corona 19. This super-resolution photo is an important source for researchers, and at the same time, it can be said to be meaningful in that it allows readers to appreciate Rembrandt’s masterpiece in detail online. Related information can be found here .
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