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Up Close and Personal With Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring

Published on , by La Gazette Drouot

If you want a close-up of Johannes Vermeer’s famous 1665 portrait, there’s no need to trek to the Mauritshuis Museum in the Hague. Emilien Leonhardt and Vincent Sabatier have used a custom 3D microscope to capture and stitch together 9,100 photos of the work, creating a free online 10-billion-pixel panorama.