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🖤 Promised magic and craquelures
On the website of the Rijksmuseum — the national Museum of the Netherlands — you can see the very wonderland that I wanted to show you.
This is a unique photograph of Rembrandt's Night Watch. Looks like an ordinary photo of a great canvas. But don't rush to judge, friends! Click on the image, now again... And again...
Well? 😉
We have a unique opportunity to examine every hair of the heroes of the plot, every seam and fold of their clothes, every stroke of paint applied by the master's brush. Take a closer look at how painstaking, thorough, and accurate the work was done by the artist.
The smallest nuances, details, shades — we can enjoy all this thanks to not one, (as it seems at first glance), but 528 digital photographs of the masterpiece.
Wandering around the canvas, alternately zooming in and out with the mouse, at some point I felt literally inside the depicted scene. I can't say for sure whether it was the hypnotic influence of Rembrandt's genius, or no less masterfully grouped photos with a resolution of almost 45 megapixels.
By the way, initially, this photo with the maximum zoom of the Watch was made for that very large-scale restoration in 2019. Thanks to it, the specialists working on the restoration of the masterpiece did not have to constantly deal with microscopes.
And now we have the opportunity to study the brilliant artwork in detail.
It's a pity that not all the world's masterpieces can be viewed in great detail like this. After all, even when visiting a museum, it is not always possible to get very close to an exhibit and stay for very long in front of it 🙃