717 Gigapixel Image of Rembrandt's Nightwatch

Me and the wife visited the RM in Nov 2019. The painting is rather large, so 717 Giga pixels doesn't go as far as you would think but you get quite close to the textures that you would see close up.

Whilst you are there, please note there is rather a lot more to see than the one picture. The architecture is worth noting too. My overriding impression of the piccies on display is: "sumptuous". That's probably not in the fine arts's lexicon of superlatives but my personal experience.

The model boaty exhibition is not as jarring as it might sound, alongside some very serious artwork exhibitions and is great fun. It doesn't seem to really belong there at first blush but I do understand that naval prowess is rather important to the Netherlander psyche, so perhaps that legitimises it. It does give you a bit of relief after having rather a lot of important art thrown at you.

All in all, I cannot recommend the Rijks' highly enough. If you go anywhere near the Low Countries, then slap it on your itinerary. The coffee is quite reasonable in the entrance cafe, too.

I missed the RM by two days. We traveled to Amsterdam in March 2020, saw the Van Gogh museum, went to Barcelona for a few days and were planning on going to RM on our return leg. Except when we got back to Amsterdam, everything was shutting down and all we could do was eat and walk around.

> The painting is rather large, so 717 Giga pixels doesn't go as far as you would think

A billion is rather large, too. The pixels are 5 micrometers (1/200th of a millimeter). That is a lot smaller than the naked eye can see (about 1/10th of a millimeter)