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Passionate admirers of the music superstar are sparking a remarkable rise in popularity at a Germany-based gallery that displays a painting of the Shakespearean figure Ophelia, newly referenced in a tune and music video from Swift's recent release "Her newest album".

The museum in Wiesbaden in the central German urban center of Wiesbaden saw dozens extra visitors than normal over the past weekend, as fans wished to see the actual rendition of the artwork that starts the video for "the recent track".

In the music video, which has been streamed over 65 countless times on YouTube, the artwork springs to life, with the artist at its center.

"We are delighted by this focus - it's quite exciting," a gallery official commented.

The spokesperson noted that one family had come from the northern urban center of the northern hub, a five-hour drive distant, while several of the visitors were Americans from a local military installation.

The spokesperson stated that fans learned the artist's portrait - thought to originate to the year 1900 - was on display when the gallery employees, observing the similarity, put an notice on their website welcoming any Swift fans to join a unique guided visit.

The news then became popular across social media, the institution said.

Digital content sharing the painting's whereabouts received many thousands of positive reactions, much greater than the approximately one hundred of reactions that most of its posts usually receive.

In the classic play, Ophelia, his love interest, a young aristocrat from this nation, becomes insane and dies in water.

While not as famous than the renowned painting of this figure, the depiction also depicts a woman in a long dress positioned floating in water, surrounded by flowers.

The image is echoed on Swift's release packaging, which depicts her incompletely underwater in water.

"We are surprised and pleased that this musician incorporated this painting from the museum as motivation for her music video," a gallery head expressed.

"This presents, of course, a excellent opportunity to bring in people to the museum who haven't discovered us previously."

"Swift's new album" achieved the United Kingdom's greatest debut week of this year, after selling 304,000 units in the opening one week.

In the America, it earned more than 4 million equivalent record units in the U.S. in its opening week, according to the music chart, exceeding the achievement set by this artist with her album "25" in that year.

The release is the artist's another album to dominate the UK album chart in this year, after "her previous release" in the winter month and "another Swift album", when it returned to the top spot in the spring month.

It is furthermore the debut full-length project the singer has released since she announced her upcoming wedding to athlete the sports figure in the summer month and shared in the spring that she had retrieved rights over her back catalogue.