With the help of the 100-megapixel Hasselblad H6D 400 MS camera, the team of photographers took 8,439 individual photos of Rembrandt’s work. Later, using the possibilities of artificial intelligence, they combined the photos to form a whole. Now the digital version contains 717 billion pixels.
The detailed picture can be viewed on the website of the Rijksmuseum, the Dutch national museum in Amsterdam. Just click.
It is the largest painting of this type in the world
“The Night Watch”, also known as “The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburgh”, is the largest and most famous painting by Rembrandt, created for one of the three headquarters of the Amsterdam City Guard. “These groups of civilian soldiers defended the city from outside attack. Rembrandt was the first to paint all the characters involved in the vigilante action. A captain dressed in black gives the order to march, and the guards form themselves. Rembrandt used the light to focus on details such as the captain’s gesticulating hand and a young girl in the foreground, “the Rijksmuseum website reads. The nickname “The Night Watch” appeared much later when the painting was interpreted as representing a scene taking place at night.
Live, this work measures 363 x 437 cm. The digital version of “The Night Watch” is the largest painting of this type in the world. The specialists from the Rijksmuseum managed to break the record that belonged to the 195-gigapixel panorama of Shanghai.
Rembrandt painted “The Night Watch” in 1642, and from 1885 the work can be viewed live (intermittently) in a museum in Amsterdam.
Source: Gazeta
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