Universum Digitalis, a spinoff company of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, has recently published the result of the joined collaboration with the Louvre Museum.
After the conservation and restoration project for Jan Van Eyck’s masterpiece, the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage documented both sides of the painting with hundreds of macro photography photos. Universum Digitalis then algorithmically assembled those images to produce gigapixel images of the artwork. The painting was previously digitized in 2015 using the same scientific protocol. Universum Digitalis seamlessly aligned both acquisitions, enabling a unique pixel-level comparison before and after restoration.
Img. courtesy: Universum Digitalis
Universum Digitalis continues to contribute to the preservation of cultural heritage, having worked with institutions such as the Jheronimus Bosch Art Center in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien in Vienna, Lobkowicz Collections in Prague, Musée du Louvre in Paris, Musea Brugge in Bruges, Oskar Reinhart Collection in Winterthur, and the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage in Brussels.
Download here the full press release (PDF, 249 KB).
