An interactive website allows visitors to explore the painting “Girl with a Pearl Earring” by Johannes Vermeer and examine every detail of the artwork.
The Dutch museum Mauritshuis and technology company Hirox have teamed up to offer art lovers an unparalleled experience: the ability to see an ancient painting in its finest details.
To document its most famous work, the museum used a video microscope, produced by a lens company, capable of capturing the smallest paint particles with impressive clarity,
The new 108-gigapixel digitization of Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” (1665) brings the masterpiece to life with an interactive website that invites visitors to explore every micro detail of the painting from the 17th century.
The virtual exploration gives historians and art enthusiasts the opportunity to experience Vermeer’s work like never before and appreciate the technique of the artist considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.
The virtual tour begins with a video, and with the help of a three-dimensional tool, it is possible to explore the topography of the painting’s surface, the artist’s mastery of light, reflections in the model’s eyes, folds in the headscarf – every tiny detail.
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