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Re: Nearly 1,000 Paintings and Drawings by Vincent van Gogh Digitized and Put Online

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Post by ryaneager » Wed, Jul 11, 2018, 9:09 PM UTC

crtasm wrote: post #87

ryaneager wrote: post #28

Script to download full sized images: https://gist.github.com/RyanEager/a747215c259ffecb9beb1dfec0...

What kind of dimensions do you get from the tiled downloads? I grabbed a few of the 'large' JPGs the site offers and wonder how much of a difference there is.

Three random ones all by van Gogh:

   The Yellow House (The Street) | 6917 x 5366 
   Almond Blossom                | 7149 x 5649
   The Bedroom                   | 7187 x 5674

Re: Nearly 1,000 Paintings and Drawings by Vincent van Gogh Digitized and Put Online

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Post by dekhn » Wed, Jul 11, 2018, 9:27 PM UTC

stephenhuey wrote: post #71

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #67

Van Gogh has a special meaning for me, because it's the first time I was fascinated with a painting. To put things into context: my mom is an art historian, and when I was a kid she'd regularly drag me to museums. I remember being bored out of my mind, with only the cool architecture of the museums themselves to mildly entertain me. To this day I'm pretty uninterested in the classics Years later, in my late 20s, I we…

I never appreciated Van Gogh very much until I saw his large mesmerizing paintings in person at the museum in Amsterdam.

Me too! I was blown away by the 3d structure of the paint on the canvas. Completely changed my appreciation for the work.

Re: Nearly 1,000 Paintings and Drawings by Vincent van Gogh Digitized and Put Online

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Post by ZeikJT » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 1:17 AM UTC

akvadrako wrote: post #84

ryaneager wrote: post #28

Script to download full sized images: https://gist.github.com/RyanEager/a747215c259ffecb9beb1dfec0...

Too bad it looks like the largest resolution available is inadequate for printing.

That entirely depends on the size of the print you had in mind