The database of paintings on which we can conduct qualitative and quantitative craquelure analysis is growing! This time it is not another scan we have carried out, but an ultra-high resolution image of Rembrandt’s the “Night Watch” taken at the Rijksmuseum.
The photo consists of over 700 gigapixels, each one smaller than a red blood cell! A research team working on the so-called Operation Night Watch took thousands of photographs, which were then ‘stitched’ together with artificial intelligence.
We encourage you to check the effects on the Rijksmuseum website:
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/operation-night-watch/story/ultra-high-resolution-photo