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Passionate supporters of the music superstar are creating a noticeable rise in visitor numbers at a Germany-based gallery that exhibits a painting of the Shakespearean figure Ophelia, freshly featured in a song and visual production from Swift's recent record "Her newest album".

The museum in Wiesbaden in the central German town of the German city saw hundreds more visitors than normal over the past weekend, as Swifties hoped to observe the actual rendition of the painting that begins the video for "The Fate of Ophelia".

In the video, which has been streamed over 65 million occasions on the video platform, the artwork comes alive, with Taylor Swift at its heart.

"We truly appreciate this interest - it's a lot of fun," a museum spokesperson stated.

The spokesperson noted that one household had traveled from the north German city of the northern hub, a lengthy drive away, while a portion of the visitors were international visitors from a adjacent army base.

The representative explained that Swifties discovered the Friedrich Heyser painting - estimated to originate to the turn of the century - was on display when the gallery employees, noticing the similarity, published an announcement on their website encouraging any the singer's followers to participate in a unique tour.

The news then spread rapidly on the internet, the institution reported.

Social media posts sharing the portrait's presence received thousands of engagements, significantly more than the approximately one hundred of reactions that most of its content typically obtain.

In Hamlet, Ophelia, his love interest, a adolescent aristocrat from the Scandinavian country, goes mad and submerges.

While not as famous than John Everett Millais's painting of the same character, the artwork also depicts a woman in a elegant garment lying floating in water, surrounded by flowers.

The picture is invoked on Taylor Swift's album cover, which depicts her incompletely submerged in liquid.

"We are surprised and pleased that the artist used this artwork from the museum as influence for her video," a gallery head stated.

"This is, of course, a excellent chance to draw visitors to the institution who are unfamiliar with us yet."

"Swift's new album" secured the Britain's biggest opening week of the current year, after selling 304,000 albums in the opening the debut period.

In the America, it achieved over 4 thousand equivalent record units in the America in its first week, according to industry reports, beating the milestone held by Adele with her record "25" in 2015.

The album is Taylor Swift's third album to top the UK album chart in this year, following "Lover (Live From Paris)" in February and "another Swift album", when it reappeared to the top spot in the spring month.

It is additionally the initial full-length project the singer has released since she declared her engagement to athlete the sports figure in the summer month and revealed in May that she had reclaimed control over her earlier recordings.