High resolution you can use. 108 Gigapixel scan of a Vermeer

[Multicore]

I enjoyed this. It's a super high-res 3-D scan capturing depth information using small depth of field. Took 88 consecutive hours.

108-Gigapixel 3D Microscope Scan of Vermeer Masterpiece is Largest Ever

See Vermeer's famed "Girl With a Pear Earring" like you've never seen it before.

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Explore the captured image here

Explore Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring - 108 Gigapixel

Girl with a Pearl Earring

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Zooming is for a moment a bit like exploring those old Mandelbrot fractals.

 

[sam_adams]

I'd really like to see a hi-res scan of "The Concert".

 

[Multicore]

I'd really like to see a hi-res scan of "The Concert".

This one?

 

[sam_adams]

This one?

It would be in the frame on the right forefront, but it hasn't been seen in the thirty-three years since the theft:

 

[Multicore]

It would be in the frame on the right forefront, but it hasn't been seen in the thirty-three years since the theft:

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They should scan the empty frame. It seems like you can find amazing stuff no matter what you point that thing at.

 

[Leporello]

I have seen the real thing.

 

[GD Fan]

Incredible, thanks for posting.

And I agree, a more complex Vermeer would be even more fun to see this for!

 

[Blumlein 88]

There are these 3D printed copies you can buy. A bit pricey, but said to be quite good. Only made with a 10 gigapixel scan though done in 3D. By the same crew who did this 108 gigapixel scan.

3D Reproduction Girl with a Pearl Earring

3D Reproduction Girl with a Pearl Earring

shop.mauritshuis.nl

 

[restorer-john]

I'm waiting for them to giga scan some masterpiece only to find out it was a fake all along. LOL.

 

[Blumlein 88]

I'm waiting for them to giga scan some masterpiece only to find out it was a fake all along. LOL.

Watch "Made you Look" documentary on Netflix about the scandal around the Knoedler art gallery in New York.

Seen a couple of other such about finding quite a few fakes that experts approved of and they are hanging in prestigious locations around the world. In time technology will uncover more and more of those.

Elmyr de Hory was another successful forger that fooled many museums. A movie was made about Wolfgang Beltracchi who did the same thing, but did go to trial for it eventually.

 

[GD Fan]

The fantastic book I Was Vermeer details the story of Han van Meegeren, who was charged as a collaborator for selling a Vermeer to Goering during the war. However, he substantiated that in reality he was merely a prolific forger who had actually fleeced the Nazis, winning a much reduced sentence for that crime.

 

[sam_adams]

If you're ever in Boston, the Gardner is an exquisite museum to visit, unlike any other art museum you've been to. I had seen "The Concert" there prior to the infamous heist which was documented in a Netflix series, This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist. Unfortunately, we might never see that painting again.

 

[Multicore]

Watch "Made you Look" documentary on Netflix about the scandal around the Knoedler art gallery in New York.

Watch F for Fake!

Authenticity is a slippery concept. What's it for anyway?

 

[Count Arthur]

I enjoyed this movie: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tims_vermeer_2014

 

[Blumlein 88]

I enjoyed this movie: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tims_vermeer_2014

Yes, that is a good show. A bit of a controversy as to whether Vermeer used this method, but it looks likely he did something of that sort.

 

[Blumlein 88]

Watch F for Fake!

Authenticity is a slippery concept. What's it for anyway?

Oh yes, I love that film. Have a copy of it around here somewhere. Orson Welles when he is good is very, very good. A shame he didn't make more films of all kinds.

 

[Multicore]

I wonder what the copyright situation is like with this scan. If I use the web viewer and screenshot it to make a new image like the one below to use as covert art for my new release, who's gonna sue me for unauthorized use of the property?