100% crop of the image. You can see the cracks in the painting.
This clearly falls into the ‘Hi-res’ category, but if I had a ‘Super-duper Hi-res’ category, this would fit in there as well.
Measuring 172181 x 93611 pixels at full resolution, HAL9000, an Italian company that specializes in art restoration and imaging, has put Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper online in its entirety. [via]
Jesus’ hand @ 7% crop.
It’s very likely that this is about as close as you’ll ever get to the image — probably even closer you’d ever get if you were in the physical presence of the painting.
As you might have guessed, the hi-res image is compiled from 1677 multiple images. At 16,118,035,591 pixels — that is 16GP, for gigapixels — this is a whopping monster of an image.
Check out the hi-res The Last Supper here. Fascinating, indeed.
If you get tired of viewing The Last Supper, you can see three other hi-res images (2 paintings, 1 photo) here.
PS: WHY DID THEY ADD THAT MUSIC?! SO STUPID. Totally turned an awesome thing sour, in my opinion.
