Armchair tourists who are used to travelling the globe with Google Earth can now use the same technology to crawl all over the masterpieces in one of the world's most famous galleries: the Prado.The Madrid museum and the internet search giant today unveil the first use of Google's mapping programme to allow art lovers to get so close to their favourite paintings that even the brush strokes are visible."It allows people to see the main masterworks in the museum as they never have done before," the museum said. "You can see details that the human eye alone is unable to see."Fourteen of the Prado's masterpieces - including works by Francisco de Goya, Diego Velázquez and Hieronymus Bosch - can be seen online in almost microscopic detail. The technology allows internet users to fly across the surface of the canvases, homing in on details that would be invisible to the naked eye if they visited the Madrid gallery in person.
Armchair tourists who are used to travelling the globe with Google Earth can now use the same technology to crawl all over the masterpieces in one of the world's most famous galleries: the Prado.
The Madrid museum and the internet search giant today unveil the first use of Google's mapping programme to allow art lovers to get so close to their favourite paintings that even the brush strokes are visible.
"It allows people to see the main masterworks in the museum as they never have done before," the museum said. "You can see details that the human eye alone is unable to see."
Fourteen of the Prado's masterpieces - including works by Francisco de Goya, Diego Velázquez and Hieronymus Bosch - can be seen online in almost microscopic detail. The technology allows internet users to fly across the surface of the canvases, homing in on details that would be invisible to the naked eye if they visited the Madrid gallery in person.
The technology allows internet users to fly across the surface of the canvases, homing in on details that would be invisible to the naked eye if they visited the Madrid gallery in person.
... really, reinforcing my prejudicial opinion (European museums notoriously natural light; this tech is no true virtual tour. Second, one can always spot an working artist in a museum; they're the only one's "homing in on details" -- cheek to jowl with canvas (not "frame" dammit) or the velvet rope or the Rent-a-Cop. Critics hog the banquettes. Tourists power down the trail, clockwise.)
of tourism and GOOG. Thanks. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
