Sunday, September 30, 2012

The Van Eyck Altar piece


get a close up look at the Ghent altar piece LINK

via IdleSpeculationsBlog, who links to several other sites that discuss the artwork.

The Ghent Altarpiece recently underwent much-needed emergency conservation 
The altarpiece was scrutinised and professionally photographed at extremely high resolution in both regular and infrared light. The photographs were then digitally stitched together 
The result is that in the comfort of one`s home one can examine the work in 100 billion pixels on the website: Closer to Van Eyck: Rediscovering the Ghent Altarpiece
The new website is part of the Getty’s Panel Paintings Initiative.

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