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

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

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Post by MeteorMarc »

ethbr1 wrote: post #63
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…

> One of the things special to me about the night watch is that it's huge in real life which I never really appreciated before I saw it. Famous art that's stunningly bigger in person than I expected: - The Raft of the Medusa (Géricault) - Guernica (Picasso) - The Hallucinogenic Toreador (Dalí) Cannot recommend seeing art in person enough. Aside from the scale, it's also impossible to fully capture color or translucen…

Add Birth of Venus (Botticelli)

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

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Post by dralley »

diego_moita wrote: post #59

The Rijksmuseum is on my top 5 list of museums I've ever visited, along with the Vatican Museum, the Louvre, the Met and the Uffizzi. There are a lot more interesting works in there including Vermeer, other Rembrandt works, Pieter DeHooch, Rubens, the whole golden era of Dutch Renaissance... Since you're in Amsterdam already save some time to visit the VanGogh Museum, very close to Rijksmuseum. And since you're in Ne…

Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is very nice. The inside is basically a palace.

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

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Post by trox »

ethbr1 wrote: post #63
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…

> One of the things special to me about the night watch is that it's huge in real life which I never really appreciated before I saw it. Famous art that's stunningly bigger in person than I expected: - The Raft of the Medusa (Géricault) - Guernica (Picasso) - The Hallucinogenic Toreador (Dalí) Cannot recommend seeing art in person enough. Aside from the scale, it's also impossible to fully capture color or translucen…

Aside from color and translucency, an original artwork shows also the relief. It can tell much about the creation process of a painting and adds additional texture. Furthermore, some pigments were expensive and hard to work with prior to the 19th century such that artists used it very sparingly.

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

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Post by roughly »

curiousgal wrote: post #8

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.

This particular piece of work is damn near 400 years old. When one is tasked with participating in preserving such an item so the next twenty generations can also enjoy it, it pays to take notes on what you’ve done with your small part of that chain.

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

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Post by wkat4242 »

JJMcJ wrote: post #49
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.

Yeah I just don't 'see that' in them. Like I said I'm far from an art connoisseur.

So what I said is my opinion alone :)

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

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Post by lysace »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #85
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…

Since it was not clear from my comment: "At some point I was in the middle of the central corridor and it then hit me... Wow" was when I discovered the real painting on a whole wall at the end of the central corridor. It was amazing

This gives some context to the the size: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40137724

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

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Post by GrumpyNl »

besttof wrote: post #97

A colleague of mine made this very nice way to explore the (often) high resolution images from their collection: https://rijkscollection.net/ Highly recommended and easy to fall into a “rijkscollection hole” for a bit :)

Works better than the one mentioned in the title, this one let you zoom in and out with scroll weel.

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

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Post by dexwiz »

ethbr1 wrote: post #63
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…

> One of the things special to me about the night watch is that it's huge in real life which I never really appreciated before I saw it. Famous art that's stunningly bigger in person than I expected: - The Raft of the Medusa (Géricault) - Guernica (Picasso) - The Hallucinogenic Toreador (Dalí) Cannot recommend seeing art in person enough. Aside from the scale, it's also impossible to fully capture color or translucen…

Napoleon Crossing the Alps Is also much bigger than I expected.
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