Making a new Rembrandt using data analysis and 3D printing

What does a “typical” Rembrandt painting look like? In consultation with museum experts, a team of data scientists, computer developers and engineers in the Netherlands analysed 346 paintings by the Dutch master to identify the quintessential Rembrandt subject: Caucasian, male, between 30 and 40 years old, with facial hair, dark clothing, a collar and a hat. They used the data to design the Next Rembrandt, a 3D-printed “painting” containing more than 148 million pixels wh