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- For those of us who's only piece of art they see are the icons on their
- Mac-desktop, here is something else.
-
- It is a scanned picture of a famous painting as startupscreen. The full name
- in Dutch is:
-
- 'Het korporaalschap van kapitein Frans Banning Cock en luitenant Willem
- van Ruytenburch.'
-
- and in English:
-
- 'The company of captain Frans Banning Cock and lieutenant Willem van
- Ruytenburch.'
-
- aka 'NightWatch' (1642)
- by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669)
-
- The quality of the picture isn't perfect but will do on a 8-bit 13" screen.
- If you want to have the perfect version: sorry, the NightWatch isn't for sale.
- But you can take a look at it in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam,
- the Netherlands.
-
- It definitly belongs in the /art directory! :-)
-
- Hope you like it.
-
- Rene Ros
-
- rgaros@bio.vu.nl
-
- /art/nightwatch.cpt.hqx
-