The Berlin Picture Gallery (Gemäldegalerie) has completed a large-scale project to digitize works lost as a result of two fires at the end of World War II. Among the works are paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, Paolo Veronese, Anthony van Dyck, and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
The basis for the digital reconstructions was the glass photo negatives created as part of a documentation campaign that the museum began in 1925. Most of the photographs were taken by German photographer Gustav Schwarz, who documented new acquisitions to the collection until 1944. The digitized images will be available online — viewers will be able to enlarge them and download them to their devices.
