Newsvine – Digital images of all Rembrandt’s work on show
filed in news on Jul.02, 2009
via Newsvine – Digital images of all Rembrandt’s work on show.
I’d like to see this…
The life work of Rembrandt — all 317 known paintings, 285 etchings and more than 100 drawings — go on display next week in full-sized digital reproductions that attempt to recreate the works as they emerged from the artist’s studio rather than as they exist today.
In some ways, the high resolution images are more authentic than the real paintings, said Ernst van de Wetering, a leading Rembrandt scholar who supervised the project.
Employing computer wizardry, pieces of canvas or panel that were sliced off centuries ago have been patched back on. Colors are restored to the vibrancy they had when they came off the master’s brush. Details hidden in darkness because of aging pigments emerge into view.
“The Complete Rembrandt, Life Size” exhibition opens Sunday in the former Amsterdam Stock Exchange building and runs through Sept. 7.
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