World's largest painting to go digital

Puffin13 · Post by **Puffin13** » Tue 3rd Mar 2009 06:48 am

World's largest painting to go digital
02 March 2009

The world's largest painting, Panorama Mesdag, is to be digitised and made available for viewing on the internet. The cylindrical painting, housed in a purpose-built museum in The Hague, measures 120 metres by 14 metres. It is to be photographed in detail at high resolution. The museum says the photos will provide unprecedented possibilities for study and restoration.

Panorama Mesdag was painted in 1881 by Hendrik Willem Mesdag and his wife Sientje over a period of four months. It shows a 360-degree view from the sand dunes of The Hague's seaside resort, Scheveningen. Vincent van Gogh apparently said of the painting, "Panorama Mesdag has only one flaw, and that is that it has no flaws."

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Kingdoc · Post by **Kingdoc** » Thu 5th Mar 2009 11:42 pm

This museum looks a decent place

www.gemeentemuseum.nl/index.php?id=1&langId=en

& Its only a small train ride away.