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

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Post by grumple » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 12:58 PM UTC

Daub wrote: post #37

Shortly after the painting was completed it was cropped so that it would fit on the wall. See if you can guess which edge was the victim. Of the high resolution image itself... I teach painting and regularly use such images as teaching aids. I honesty belive that they have as much teaching value (or even more) than seeing the real thing. The details of paint applicationare magnificently clear in such images.

It was actually cropped on all 4 sides: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/operation-night-watch-1982...

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

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Post by nofunsir » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 1:05 PM UTC

reminds me of microsoft seadragon/photosynth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seadragon_Software

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

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Post by mrs6969 » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 1:22 PM UTC

I am literally standing in the museum, looking at night watch as this moment, and saw this post. Legend.

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

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Post by hnbukkake » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 1:27 PM UTC

mrs6969 wrote: post #43

I am literally standing in the museum, looking at night watch as this moment, and saw this post. Legend.

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

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Post by josefrichter » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 1:30 PM UTC

Did we just take down the website?

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

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Post by hnbukkake » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 1:31 PM UTC

wkat4242 wrote: post #18

I worked at this museum a few decades ago on a contract job, it was cool to walk around among so much history. Though I never really could appreciate the "old masters" from the Dutch Golden Age. Their work was part art and part record-keeping for which nowadays we have photography and video. The subject of many of these works are stuffy rich people posing for the "family album". Artfully done yes but boring subjects…

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

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Post by BrandoElFollito » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 1:41 PM UTC

First time I visited the Rijksmuseum I was of course excited to see the night watch. I found it on a side wall, 20x15 cm and was really surprised. I was expecting something more grandiose.

But never mind, I love paintings from that era so I went on admiring the others.

At some point I was in the middle of the central corridor and it then hit me... Wow.

Before getting to the main part of the museum, there were two temporary exhibitions. One was about doll houses and the other was about the activities (work) on a 17th century ship.

The latter was amazing. I was traumatized by the surgeon work, and his 5 tools... 5 tools to handle all injuries - how happy I am too live in France in the 21st century

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

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Post by dralley » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 1:47 PM UTC

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #47

First time I visited the Rijksmuseum I was of course excited to see the night watch. I found it on a side wall, 20x15 cm and was really surprised. I was expecting something more grandiose. But never mind, I love paintings from that era so I went on admiring the others. At some point I was in the middle of the central corridor and it then hit me... Wow. Before getting to the main part of the museum, there were two tem…

The Nights Watch takes up nearly an entire wall, not sure what you saw but it wasn't the actual painting.

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

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Post by JJMcJ » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 1:51 PM UTC

wkat4242 wrote: post #18

I worked at this museum a few decades ago on a contract job, it was cool to walk around among so much history. Though I never really could appreciate the "old masters" from the Dutch Golden Age. Their work was part art and part record-keeping for which nowadays we have photography and video. The subject of many of these works are stuffy rich people posing for the "family album". Artfully done yes but boring subjects…

Rembrandt could put life into rich people's portraits in ways few were ever able to match.

Besides the Night Watch, this one: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rembrandt_-_De_Staal...

known in English by various names, such as Syndics of the Drapers' Guild. These portrayals are anything but stuffy.

One writer said, if you take Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, for music, Rembrandt was more than that for painting.

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

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Post by JJMcJ » Sat, Sep 21, 2024, 1:54 PM UTC

jimvdv wrote: post #36

wkat4242 wrote: post #18

I worked at this museum a few decades ago on a contract job, it was cool to walk around among so much history. Though I never really could appreciate the "old masters" from the Dutch Golden Age. Their work was part art and part record-keeping for which nowadays we have photography and video. The subject of many of these works are stuffy rich people posing for the "family album". Artfully done yes but boring subjects…

I agree with you on the subjects are boring rich people, if we judge it with today standards. For the time it was actually quite unique that (upper) middle class people could get their portrait done, and not just nobles. I like to think of it as part of a period of history where the merchants start to gain power from the aristocracy and that shows in what gets passed down to us.

> (upper) middle class people

It reflects a great change in Western society, which really began to flourish first in the Netherlands, where the merchant and industrial classes began to be dominant, and were growing sick of pretending it wasn't true.

Mostly in Britain these days, we see the final pretenses of the nobility on display.