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OriginalThe Ruins of Holyrood Chapel by French artist Louis Daguerre, circa 1824.
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High resolution painting of the Holyrood Abbey lit by moonlight by French artist, stage designer, and photographer Louis Daguerre. Conflicting dates, but around 1824, Daguerre built and exhibited a 70-foot wide diorama of the ruins of this abbey and would backlight it, revealing "a ghostly figure wandering in the moonlit Gothic ruin" (source for quote). This painting was created after this effect, minus—in this version—the figure.
I removed a one pixel extremely dark (almost black, but not quite) border on the right and bottom edges, and then I copied five pixels from part of the sky to cover up a five-pixel hair or glitch at the very, very top right corner. I left the dangling part simply because it appears more natural than the pixel-straight glitch and isn't distracting to me.
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The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel
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Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator
Louis Daguerre

Promoted File:The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel (Louis Daguerre), 1824 (Google Art Project).jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 21:56, 13 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]