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posted by martyb on Tuesday October 02 2018, @06:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the well-worth-looking-into dept.

The Kunst Historisches Museum in Vienna is currently running an exhibition about one of the Old Masters, Bruegel, gathering an unprecedented number of his works in one location.

For those not able to visit, the Kunst Historisches Museum has provided a website, Inside Bruegel. There, twelve of his works can be studied in extremely high resolution macrophotography, infrared macrophotography, infrared reflectography and X-radiography, making a visit to the website perhaps even more interesting than the exhibition itself (where viewing time is limited: you have to make timeslot reservations).

This approach is similar to the one taken during the restoration of the Lam Gods altar piece, a highlight of another Old Master, Van Eyck.

Both websites make for a pleasant and interesting visit -- quite counter to many of today's websites, bloated with scripts and overloaded with semi-information.

Which other websites do you know about which manage to combine effective information visualisation and interesting content?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @08:05PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 02 2018, @08:05PM (#743033)

    More like broken websites, without JS you get pretty much nothing.

    Well I didn't want to see it anyway.

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by edIII on Tuesday October 02 2018, @08:19PM (1 child)

    by edIII (791) on Tuesday October 02 2018, @08:19PM (#743038)

    JS is not the problem. How it is used is the problem. This website in question isn't so bad. Facebook Connect and Google Analytics are the only external scripts loaded. Everything else is contained within their domain. Block all external scripts from loading at all, and then you don't have as much of a problem.

    The art and different imaging methods is pretty neat. You'd be missing out on it.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @08:51AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03 2018, @08:51AM (#743307)

      Umatrix allows the source site by default and blocks third party js by default. Solves most problems.

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday October 03 2018, @07:02PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Wednesday October 03 2018, @07:02PM (#743572) Homepage
    Agreed - both are classic examples of JS-laden webshites.
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