Nothing evokes emotions like going to an art gallery, to admire a real masterpiece. It was still believed that viewing the same picture on a digital screen cannot have the same effect, but one Spanish group claims that art viewing on iPad can give you even more insight into the picture than you you think.
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Madrid’s famous gallery, Prado Museum, released iOS application that allows for layered viewing famous paintings to reveal intimate, and often frightening, secrets hidden under layers of paint.
The Prado Museum Second Canvas app brings together ancient paintings with modern technology to explore the 14 most famous masterpieces of the famous gallery.
The developers combined a magnified image paintings with his image in x-ray and infrared rays: an x-ray reveals layers of paint in the process of creating the canvas, while how the initial sketches appear in infrared light artists who can often be dramatically different from the final options.
Madpixel app developers have also combined thousands of high-resolution images to create one A gigantic image of more than 1,000,000,000 pixels. It means, that the user can see the image in unprecedented details.
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For example, scaling the face of St. John the Theologian with van der Weyden’s “Descent from the Cross,” shows tears, rolling down his cheeks.
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However, if you look at the picture in infrared light – you can see that his throat is cut open. This detail van der Weiden later deleted.
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The incredible craftsmanship of this picture is manifested with the increase – the tears on the face of the Virgin Mary look like real water on the canvas.
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And a very creepy figure of a woman with a bag for the head enemy warlord appears in infrared light in the picture Rembrandt “Judith at the Holofernes Feast”.
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Madpixel application developers hope in the future collaboration with other galleries and museums, promoting their technology on a global scale.
