Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022)

Despite the ill-advised mandatory account (really, what's up with that?), the Rijksmuseum is providing a better service than the neighbouring Van Goghmuseum, which refuses to share anything but low resolution photos of Vincent van Gogh's works. Public museums are supposed to be custodians of culture, not IP owners.

Re: Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022)

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Post by mjfisher » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 10:41 AM UTC

Freak_NL wrote: post #3

An older, lower resolution image (11206 × 9320 pixels) can be downloaded here: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=nachtwacht&p=... To avoid the dumb mandatory account login, just use https://bugmenot.com/view/rijksmuseum.nl . It worked just now (so be nice and leave it working). Despite the ill-advised mandatory account (really, what's up with that?), the Rijksmuseum is providing a better service than the…

I'm on mobile; I scrolled to the bottom and clicked the image of the painting and could zoom in to my heart's content - did it ask you for an account?

Re: Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022)

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Post by keepamovin » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 10:44 AM UTC

Oh wow, that is so cool. I thought I was at max zoom, normal blurry tiles. Then BOOM! It came into focus and I saw tiny cracks, smallest areas of paint, no loss of clarity. It's like you're standing right up next to it. That's incredible! Wow, all I can say. That's insane, that is totally insane!

I would love if there were a depthmask or something and a synthetic "keylight" feature you could drag around to really get an idea of the textures, the peaks and valleys. I guess we'll have that in a future version. This is incredible.

Re: Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022)

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Post by Freak_NL » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 10:44 AM UTC

mjfisher wrote: post #4

Freak_NL wrote: post #3

An older, lower resolution image (11206 × 9320 pixels) can be downloaded here: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=nachtwacht&p=... To avoid the dumb mandatory account login, just use https://bugmenot.com/view/rijksmuseum.nl . It worked just now (so be nice and leave it working). Despite the ill-advised mandatory account (really, what's up with that?), the Rijksmuseum is providing a better service than the…

I'm on mobile; I scrolled to the bottom and clicked the image of the painting and could zoom in to my heart's content - did it ask you for an account?

You can zoom in a lot on the 2490 × 1328 pixels offered. When you hit the download button for the full version, you get nagged.

Edit: you can zoom in, and then it will offer up the painting in slices at a higher resolution. So in theory you could download those and stitch them together if you manage to hit an unscaled version.

Re: Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022)

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Post by Aachen » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 10:45 AM UTC

Not sure if off topic, but this German TV ad did a creative recreation of the painting that I found amusing as a Dutch person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6XQXhr7LQM

Re: Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022)

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Post by curiousgal » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 10:48 AM UTC

To be honest I don't understand the obsession about documenting things that are done to the painting. Going through that section of the museum I felt like the curators cared more about showcasing their efforts to store the painting than the painting itself.

Re: Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022)

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Post by re » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 10:57 AM UTC

Freak_NL wrote: post #3

An older, lower resolution image (11206 × 9320 pixels) can be downloaded here: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search/objects?q=nachtwacht&p=... To avoid the dumb mandatory account login, just use https://bugmenot.com/view/rijksmuseum.nl . It worked just now (so be nice and leave it working). Despite the ill-advised mandatory account (really, what's up with that?), the Rijksmuseum is providing a better service than the…

Wikimedia has a slightly higher-res image more easily accessible: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Nightwatch_by_Re... (14,168 × 11,528 px)

Re: Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022)

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Post by stavros » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 11:00 AM UTC

This is good, but I wish they would allow for more than 1:1 zoom in. 1:1 pixels on a 4k display are too small, I'd like to be able to zoom in more than that.