Roger Ebert: “gobsmackingly gorgeous web site”

March 3, 2012

From Roger Ebert’s FaceBook page: “One of the most gobsmackingly gorgeous web sites I have ever seen.” It’s focus is the Ghent Altarpiece:

The Ghent Altarpiece or Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (Dutch: Het Lam Gods or The Lamb of God; completed 1432) is a very large and complex Early Netherlandish polyptych panel painting which is considered to be one of Belgium’s masterpieces and one of the world’s treasures.

You should click on the icon in the upper right and read the ”How To.” Look at one of the options:

You can:

• view the whole altarpiece in four different modes: digital macrophotography, digital macro infrared (IR) photography, infrared reflectography (IRR), or X-radiography…

Note: For simple use, choose an image on the home page you like, and hit the “+” symbol to zoom in. You can get really up close and personal with these astonishing paintings.

“Gorgeous” was exactly the right word. Wow. Have fun.

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