


Any smaller and there would have been too many distortions.’

Jeroen Spijker: ‘I wanted to create a statue that I could still accept as a work of art with my own signature. This was scanned and printed as small as possible with a 3D printer.Ī special photo of the Rembrandt, which cannot be seen with the naked eye. The work is based on a bronze sculpture of Rembrandt that Spijker had previously made. Spijker worked together with Daniela Kraft and Rachel Doherty, researchers from the Faculty of Science at Leiden University. There is also a short film about the process. The statue will be in the same room as paintings by Rembrandt. Visitors will see for themselves how this is invisible to the naked eye. This makes it the smallest work of art in the world, says Jeroen Spijker. At just 28 micrometres tall, the statue, which was made with a 3D printer, is around a third of the thickness of a human hair. the images unveil stylistic approaches of master artists like van gogh and rembrandt, known for their distinct application of medium and surface.To celebrate Leiden European City of Science 2022, Jeroen Spijker has worked with physicists from Leiden University on a micro-statue of Rembrandt made from polymer with a layer of platinum. zoomed-in views observed through the computer look like photographs of the surface of mars, with mountains of chroma and dense patches of texture. the renderings present, in microscopic detail, the topography of the painting, exposing heaps of paint accumulated on canvases and brushstroke length and type used by the artist. using two cameras and fringe projection, which allow for unrivaled detail and speed, the process captures 40 million 3D, full color points per shot. the paintings are first imaged as 3-D visualizations through a hybrid scanning system developed by zaman. through a data-to-print process, canon’s océ group, which specializes in large format printing, has translated the scans into identical reproductions of some of the most recognized and renowned master works. Oce 3D printer creates identical reproductions of fine art paintingsĭutch researcher tim zaman designed and built a photographic scanning system which captures high-resolution, three-dimensional images of fine art paintings.
