One of the best qualities of technology is its ability to surprise us and offer us the possibility of enjoying something that we already knew from a new perspective.
This time the magic of the new scanning systems has turned works of art that we already knew, in something completely new and that allows us to perceive with great detail each of the strokes of the pieces.
The idea is not only to bring art to any corner of the world thanks to the fact that we can find the works online, but to discover details that we do not perceive at first glance, such as brush strokes, the texture of the paint, the cracks caused by the passage of the weather. With this objective, two projects were born, The Girl in the Spotlight and the project Gigapixel of the Reina Victoria Museum.
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“The Girl in the Spotlight” discovers the secrets of The girl of the pearl
10 billion pixel resolution. An extreme level of detail that has been achieved thanks to the scanning of a 3D digital microscope from Hirox Europe. In this way we will not only see even the strokes of the brush with which Johannes Vermeer painted the young woman in 1665, but we will also be able to see the small cracks and even the remains of paint that add volume to the piece and that would not be possible without this technology. appreciate seeing the painting in the museum.
The girl of the pearl, one of the most recognized and recognizable paintings of the Dutch Baroque, reveals with this technique all its secrets since an exhaustive analysis was carried out that pallowed the researchers responsible for the project to observe the pigment used or the technique, which includes the superposition of different layers until the final finish is achieved.
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Abbie Vandivere, the curator of the paintings department at the Mauritshuis museum where the work is currently located, led the project involving the Dutch Institute for Conservation, Arts and Sciences (NICAS), the University of Antwerp, the National Gallery of Art of Washington and those in charge of scanning the piece, Hirox Europe.
The project, which started in 2018, It has allowed us to know, for example, the raw materials that gave pigment to the colors that he used. These came from all over the world: Mexico, Central America, England, and possibly Asia or the West Indies. The ultramarine color used for the scarf, for example, came from a semi-precious stone from what is now Afghanistan. The preparation of this color, which in the 17th century was more precious than gold, has been discovered thanks to the project The Girl in the Spotlight.
Can Observe different details or the complete part through the website of Hirox Europe, which allows us to observe it in 3D or in 2D format and see all the secrets behind this wonderful painting.
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The Gigapixel project of the Reina Sofía Museum
On the other hand, the Reina Sofia Museum launched during the Gigapixel pandemic, a web space that allows you to explore works from your Collection in ultra-HD resolution thanks to the detailed scanning of some of the museum’s works.
The Reina Sofía Museum used a high-definition zoom for its Gigapixel project with which details that are imperceptible to the human eye were analyzed. In addition, photographs were taken with different lights that provide unique information to what we see.
A series of works by artists such as Salvador Dalí, María Blanchard, André Masson and Pablo Picasso, among others, and we can enjoy them at home in great detail. We just have to get into ita web enabled for the project, select our favorite work and begin to see it as we have never done before.
Photos | Mauritshuis Museum, Reina Sofía Museum
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