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Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper in a new gigapixel image
- matthberg 6y agoThis is a blog post summarizing another blog post [1] about a page [2] from Google Arts and Culture with the images itself. If possible, it would probably be better to update the URL to one of the other pages, as this one does not add much additional information. 1: http://www.openculture.com/2020/06/an-immaculate-copy-of-leonardos-the-last-supper-digitized-by-google.html http://www.openculture.com/2020/06/an-immaculate-copy-of-leo... 2: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/explore-the-last-supper/sAKCB2AzvHUmKQ https://artsandculture.google.com/story/explore-the-last-sup...
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y agoWow! The level of detail is so amazing. I have seen photos of the painting online and in books, but had never noticed the halos around each of the disciples except for Judas.
- huskyr 6y agoThat's probably because this is not the original, but a contemporary copy. There are no halos visible on this high resolution image of the original. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/The_Last_Supper_-_Leonardo_Da_Vinci_-_High_Resolution_32x16.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/The_Last...
- twelvechairs 6y ago'copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper'
- muterad_murilax 6y agoYeah, thanks. I wondered what had happened to the doorway below Jesus. :)
- laichzeit0 6y ago"In 1652, a doorway was cut through the (then unrecognisable) painting, and later bricked up" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo)
- sytelus 6y agoThis version is oil paint on canvas, whereas Leonardo’s version was painted in tempera and oil on a dry wall – an unusual use of materials – so has flaked and deteriorated badly. It probably didn’t help that Napoleon used the original Last Supper’s room as a stable during his invasion of Milan. This painting is thought to have been painted by Giampietrino and possibly Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio – both pupils of Leonardo. It’s believed to be the most accurate record of the original, and has been used to help with its conservation. In this copy you can see details now not visible in the original, such as this overturned salt-cellar next to Judas’s right arm. Spilled salt was commonly considered a bad omen in 16th-century western Europe. You can also see Jesus’s feet, which were lost in the original when a door was built into the wall that the work is painted on.
- rakic 6y agoCan anyone recommend a working script that downloads and stitches the highest resolution image available from here: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-last-supper-attributed-to-giampietrino-and-giovanni-antonio-boltraffio/ https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-last-supper-attr...
- thanatos519 6y agoI want this too, so that I can print it out!
- thdrdt 6y agoIt's old software but I believe this can also stitch 'flat' panorama's: http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ See "Stitching flat scanned images": http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/scans/en.shtml http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/scans/en.shtml
- glaberficken 6y agoI used Hugin to stitch a bunch of building site blueprints just last week. It was painful... just very unintuitive and hard to grasp. Very powerful software though. Just keep in mind it was built to stitch panorama photos, compensate for lens deformation, point of view, etc. Stitching flatbed scans is not the best use case for Hugin and it shows. I used the same tutorial linked by Op http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/scans/en.shtml http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/scans/en.shtml Note that Hugin requires overlap between scans. I would test MS ICE first if I were you (less powerful, but way simpler) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/computational-photography-applications/image-composite-editor/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/computation...
- ArgyleSound 6y agohttps://ophir.alwaysdata.net/dezoomify/dezoomify.html https://ophir.alwaysdata.net/dezoomify/dezoomify.html It takes a while and I think it works best in Google Chrome.
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- jansan 6y agoObvious question: Is this powered by the same frontend technology as Google Maps? It sure feels like it.
- lovasoa 6y agoI don't know a lot about google maps, but I worked on the zoomable image formats used in Google Arts and Culture. It's quite interesting, because they tried to prevent the image tiles from being downloaded by signing tile URLs and encrypting the JPEG images. I think there is a lot to learn about the format by reading the sources of dezoomify : - https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoomify/blob/master/dezoomers/google-arts-culture.js https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoomify/blob/master/dezoomers/g... - https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoomify/blob/master/dezoomers/google-arts-culture-crypto.js https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoomify/blob/master/dezoomers/g...
- huskyr 6y agoNote that this is a copy by Giampietrino, a pupil of Leonardo, not the original mural in Milan. For comparison, here's a high resolution version of the original: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/The_Last_Supper_-_Leonardo_Da_Vinci_-_High_Resolution_32x16.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/The_Last....
- laichzeit0 6y agoThe original has probably ceased to be the "original" since about 1550 though. This copy is ironically closer to what the original looked like.
- huskyr 6y agoYeah, it's a miracle the original even survived, given that it was used as a stable, stones were thrown at it and the convent was bombed during the war. The 'Damage and restoration' section of the Wikipedia article is almost comical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo)#Damage_and_restorations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo)#Dam....
- aosaigh 6y ago> In 1821, Stefano Barezzi, an expert in removing whole frescoes from their walls intact, was called in to remove the painting to a safer location; he badly damaged the center section before realizing that Leonardo's work was not a fresco. This made me laugh. I wasn't aware of its history. It's amazing how much effort has gone into preserving it over the centuries.
- lou1306 6y agoDa Vinci's experiments with "frescoes" were tragicomical themselves. The guy really tried his darnedest to make frescoes as lifelike as oil paintings. Results: most of his fresco works are either lost or need a lot of restoration work.
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- conistonwater 6y agoMaybe it's distributed systems thinking, but they should really paint six more of these copies so that we can withstand a random failure of any three.
- gruturo 6y agoThat sounds wasteful. Just use some good erasure coding on the individual apostles.
- jcun4128 6y agoside note: what is that date format c.1515-20 it's in the Google & Arts Culture link from this article
- rburhum 6y agoThe resolution of this copy is amazing. I never noticed details like the sandals or the houses+castles in the background. Amazing work!
- jlarcombe 6y ago"Table for 26 please." "But there are only 13 of you." "Yes, but we're all going to sit on the same side."
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- Markoff 6y agoThanks to zoomable version I was able to relive times of dial-up modems again.
- lmilcin 6y agoNote, that this is A COPY of Last Supper, mentioned in the article but not prominently enough: "The Royal Academy of Arts and Google teamed up on a high-resolution scan of a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper painted by his students."
- dwheeler 6y agoIt's a stunningly beautiful work, but it also reminds me about the fragility of works. The original is badly damaged. Thankfully, we have this copy, and now that it's been recorded electronically in theory we will at least have this version forever. But in practice, I fear that a lot of data will disappear. Modern hard drives and ssds have a frighteningly short lifetime. There are some organizations that are trying to record some of this, such as the internet archive, but it is not clear to me that they are going to last in the long term. I would like to be more confident that much of the works of the present and past (like this) will survive into the future.
- tutfbhuf 6y agoI think it will as long as people can download it, have their own copy, re-upload and share it peer-to-peer. I think the single most important thing is to make sure to have many copies around the world and not just to rely on one or a few (even if they are well protected and properly conserved).
- whywhywhywhy 6y agoThings like this seriously need a download link, otherwise it might be archived but really it's just a copy in Google's servers.
- rladd 6y agoThe original is badly damaged, and then damaged more by over-cleaning, one of the misplaced enthusiasms of our age. By stripping away everything but the original paint (of which often not much is left), irreplaceable information is lost, because the retouchers had often seen the original or more of it, and restored detail that had been damaged. What remains after these extreme cleanings is too often little more than the underpainting and initial sketch. It's a great loss and a great pity.
- coliveira 6y agoThis must have been the first time 13 people used only one side of the table...
- mamon 6y agoTo be fair, there are clearly the plates set on the other side. The painting is supposed to catch the moment when some of the apostoles stood up to get together with their comrades. you can see some of them standing behind the back of the others, not sitting. Also, the apostole on the Jesus's right is clearly a woman...
- Wistar 6y agoIs it just me? I cannot find a a link to the actual gigpixel image anywhere on that page.
- chirau 6y agoIt looks like it is split into multiple sections. When you inspect the page under the 'Network' tab, you'll find at least 4 individual pieces that combine to form the whole image.
- tigerbelt 6y ago<3 Art ... boo open culture ! Good culture > open culture Thanks Omar!