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Creative => Photography & Graphics => Topic started by: Hadoque on October 25, 2013, 20:58:59
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Small diorama with custom-figures I made past days...
It is a representation with "live Playmobil" (*) of the famous painting "The Night Watch" - official titel "The Shooting Company of captain Frans Banning Cocq and lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch , made by Rembrandt during 1639-1642.
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Nicely done, Erwin, and I've taken a liberty of adding a link to the original:
http://vangoghpaintings.com/paintings/A107,%20REMBRANDT,%20The%20Company%20of%20Captain%20Frans%20Banning%20Cocq,%20The%20Nightwatch.jpg
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First 2 pics below are of the original painting by Rembrandt, which can be visited in the "Rijksmuseum", Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
(*) from post 1:
There exists a version of Rembrandt's masterpiece that looks a bit like a representation with Playmobil, but in fact it is a painting too or a print. There is no real Playmobil used in that one, but the painted figures somewhat look like it.
I don't know the author's name, 3rd pic below.
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Thanks, Gordon :)
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What a splendid creation so faithfull to the original masterpiece :love: :love:
Thank you so much for adding the background informations to such an interesting thread :)
Once again, a wonderful and original idea to share Art & knowledge through Playmobil !
Karim
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It looks great, instantly recognized it. :)
Those clickies really match the people on the painting.
Only thing I'd change would be less lightning since the painting is quite dark.
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It looks great, instantly recognized it. :)
Those clickies really match the people on the painting.
Only thing I'd change would be less lightning since the painting is quite dark.
In choosing an example of the original picture to post, I purposely went for a lighter version to show the details better. For a long time, the painting was very dark but it has recently been cleaned and so is much brighter and lighter.
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Awesome some great work on the costumes :)
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Great looking image Erwin!
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Wonderful small diorama with great customs!!! Excellent job, congrats!!
George. :)
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A very nice representation of a much more civilized era. It is very interesting to note the crossover of armour and weapons (shield and heavy sword alongside rapier and muskets! as well as breastplates and gorgets and helmets alongside doublets and hats!).
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Great diorama, Erwin! :love:
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Fantastic, Erwin! A really good idea for a project.
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That's great! :)
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Here is some interesting information from Wikipedia on the Nightwatch:
Rembrandt painted The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq between 1640 and 1642. This picture was called the Nachtwacht by the Dutch and the Night Watch by Sir Joshua Reynolds because by the 18th century the picture was so dimmed and defaced by time that it was almost indistinguishable and it looked quite like a night scene. After it was cleaned, it was discovered to represent broad day—a party of musketeers stepping from a gloomy courtyard into the blinding sunlight.
A very nice representation of a much more civilized era.
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I'm not sure about that. The picture was painted between 1640 and 1642 and at that time the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) was raging in Europe and the struggle of the Netherlands to gain its freedom from Spain (The Eighty Years War 1568-1648) was still taking place, while 1642-1649 saw the Civil Wars in Great Britain and Ireland. (Quite a number of officers and troops who fought in the English Civil Wars had previously been fighting in the Thirty Years War.) In many ways, these three wars were the first examples of all inclusive war where the distinction between the military and civilians began to be ignored.
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Splendid :(o):
That must have taken you ages, getting all the right clickies and details for that shot :o
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Fantastic Customs here !! :xmascheer: