This month the Rijksmuseum is launching its massive restoration of Rembrandt’s Night Watch. The team is posting regular videos and offering live chats with conservators, among other content-sharing of the complex work involved. The research phase begins today (July 5). More coverage in the Guardian. Among the rich offerings on the website is the section…
Artstor announced The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has now made available more than 35,000* images in the Artstor Digital Library. These two extensive collections – Warhol’s Oeuvre and Photographic Legacy Project – provide a thorough presentation of Warhol’s works for the first time, including more than 34,000 original Andy Warhol photographs as well as paintings,…
This month, Sweden’s Nationalmuseum contributed over 3100 high quality digital images of works from their collection into Wikimedia Commons. While the museum’s long-term goal is greater visibility and accessibility to their collection, in the short term it also provides access to artworks not currently on view, since the museum is undergoing renovation and most of…
We recently acquired a set of over 3,000 beautiful images of Italian Renaissance art from Archivision, the vendor of the high quality content architectural images (35,000!) we already have in MDID (the Image Resource Center’s image database). The images were shot at 19 museums and other sites in Rome, Florence and Naples. In addition to…
This little video is quite a dreamy thing – digital animations of several Rijksmuseum paintings. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDdZIi175sw] A company named CS Digital Media created these animations as large scale “digital posters” to recognize the anniversary of the Rijksmuseum renovation. (They were on display in various Amsterdam metro stations, unfortunately only for a week.) You can…
A team of 40 French technicians and artists have spent the last year working on a “Living Mona Lisa,” which uses a motion sensor (similar to those employed in interactive video games) to produce a version of the portrait that can follow viewers’ movements with her eyes and change her expression. As Florent Aziosmanoff, who conceived…