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Passionate admirers of the pop sensation are generating a remarkable surge in popularity at a European art institution that displays a painting of the Shakespearean figure Ophelia, freshly reimagined in a tune and music video from Swift's latest album "Her newest album".

The museum in Wiesbaden in the central German town of Wiesbaden welcomed dozens more visitors than normal over the past weekend, as enthusiasts aimed to view the real version of the painting that begins the visual for "the recent track".

In the music video, which has been watched exceeding 65 thousand times on the video platform, the artwork springs to life, with Taylor Swift at its center.

"We are delighted by this attention - it's very enjoyable," an institution representative remarked.

The representative noted that one household had come from the north German location of Hamburg, a five-hour trip distant, while a portion of the guests were U.S. citizens from a adjacent army base.

The spokesperson explained that followers discovered the Friedrich Heyser artwork - estimated to date to 1900 - was present when the museum team, recognizing the likeness, posted an notice on their online platform welcoming any Swift fans to join a unique guided visit.

The news then went viral on the internet, the museum reported.

Social media posts describing the portrait's location garnered numerous of likes, significantly more than the limited number of reactions that the majority of its updates tend to get.

In Hamlet, Ophelia, his love interest, a youthful noblewoman from this nation, suffers a breakdown and dies in water.

While not as famous than the famous portrait of the same character, the portrait also shows a female figure in a long dress positioned submerged in a body of water, surrounded by floral elements.

The visual is echoed on Swift's album cover, which shows her somewhat immersed in water.

"We are amazed and delighted that Taylor Swift used this artwork from the institution as influence for her visual," a museum director commented.

"It represents, of course, a great opportunity to attract individuals to the gallery who haven't discovered us so far."

"The recent release" secured the Britain's biggest opening week of this year, after selling 304,000 units in the initial seven days.

In the United States, it earned exceeding 4 million corresponding record units in the America in its debut week, according to the music chart, surpassing the achievement established by the British singer with her album "25" in the past.

The album is Taylor Swift's another record to dominate the UK rankings in the current year, following "an earlier album" in February and "another Swift album", when it came back to number one in recently.

It is additionally the first full-length project Taylor Swift has released since she declared her engagement to football player her partner in recently and revealed in May that she had retrieved ownership over her back catalogue.