Comments on: Rembrandt: life, paintings, etchings, drawings and self portraits

By: Artisan

Artisan — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:57:02 +0000

The fact that Rembrandt was also a skilled etcher is lucky for us, because otherwise we (the general public) could never afford his works. These Rembrandt etchings are original works that are 400 some years old and just amazing to me. Of course they are not cheap, but they are more conceivable to own than, say, one of his unique paintings.

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:31:02 +0000

It’s long been one of my favorite drawings.

By: Linus

Linus — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:52:51 +0000

The sleeping woman nearly made me weep when I first saw it, a few days ago in my drawing class.

By: sarah

sarah — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:26:06 +0000

thanks for the links, they have been the perfect resources for my art class project!

By: Albert

Albert — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:57:54 +0000

i like these works, they contain an aexpressionistic side to evoking images and realistic forms. they are simple yet effective to those who watch carefully.

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:55:15 +0000

i love art and these are really good

By: Li-An

Li-An — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:49:07 +0000

There’s an exposition at Le Louvres museum of Rembrandt’s drawings. If you are in Paris… :-)

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:35:26 +0000

Andrew, I think it’s more likely he’s saving them at a low level of compression to preserve image quality. This is unusual, but it’s actually for our benefit. JPEG images are capable of many levels of compression, but JPEG is a “lossy” compression method, it saves file size by throwing image information away. At low levels of compression, it’s not noticable, but as you compress more (or if you re-save the same image multiple times as a JPEG) you lose image quality until the degradation becomes apparent.

Janson is actually being generous in offering the images a low levels of compression (higher file size) because it costs him more in bandwidth. He’s leaving us with the option to re-save them (as you did) at a higher compression rate (lower file size) if we want to, but you can’t put the extra image quality back in once it’s compressed.

By: Charley Parker

Charley Parker — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:25:43 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Nita, and the mention on your blog of Art Notes, a blog I wasn't aware of.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:13:51 +0000

Careful — somehow the high-res images are are saved uncompressed. I downloaded one 870K image (!), and resaved it and it dropped to 88k.

He’s doing something wrong…