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108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring

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Re: 108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring

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Post by diego_moita »

Saw this picture at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague. There are a couple funny things about it:

* It is surprisingly small

* It is kinda "fuzzy" or "blurry", you can't detect too much brushwork.

* It is very expressive

But my favorite Vermeer is not this, it is View of Delft, also in the Mauritshuis. The colors, hues and textures on it are just amazing.

For Brazilians, a funny curiosity: Mauritshuis means House of Maurice. It is really the former residence of Maurice of Nassau (Maurício de Nassau), the governor of the Dutch colonies in Brazil. This museum also have some interesting works by Rugendas and other painters showing life in colonial Brazil and a very cool collection of puppets made with bread paste showing life in colonial Indonesia.

The Mauritshuis is a very good reason to visit The Hague. If you go there take a walk to the M.C. Escher museum too.

Re: 108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring

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Post by lubujackson »

I highly recommend the movie "Tim's Vermeer" about the likelihood that Vermeer used something like a lightbox to paint his paintings. Specifically, his ability to reproduce light and color is unmatched while he only had basic training as a painter and never let anyone see him work. A fascinating engineering problem to deduce how he might have accomplished this.

Re: 108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring

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Post by c0balt »

mrandish wrote: post #6
AStonesThrow wrote: post #2

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> 3D AI girlfriend... based on the 2003 film Unexpected cross-movie tie-in: Scarlett Johansson, who played the Girl with the Pearl Earring in the 2003 film, also played the AI girlfriend in the film "Her".

That's not unexpected, that's synergy. /s
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