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Vincent van Gogh's paintings and drawings

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Re: Vincent van Gogh's paintings and drawings

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No Starry Night though, I wonder how much the MoMA would allow digitalising it

There's a high resolution (30,000 × 23,756 pixels) picture of it on Wikipedia [1] - thanks to the Google Art project [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Gogh_-_Starry_Night_-...

[2]: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-starry-night-vin...

Re: Vincent van Gogh's paintings and drawings

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post #6

Not very impressive at the painfully low resolution you download the images at. You can zoom in for a larger view, but the website does all it can to prevent users from actually downloading the high resolution image. Pathetic for a museum.

You can get URLs to the high resolution images using the network inspector. E.g. https://iiif.micr.io/TZCqF/full/1800,/0/default.webp

Re: Vincent van Gogh's paintings and drawings

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post #4

On one of the paintings[0] you can see electricity poles that look fairly modern. I didn't realise that was already the case back then! [0]: https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/d0420V1962

They look more like telephone poles, and if my google-fu is serving me, it's unlikely that large scale power distribution was around in Paris in 1887:

https://histoire.bnpparibas/en/the-compagnie-parisienne-de-d...

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