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“Prado and Google bring masterpieces to Web

Google and the Prado Museum here are making it possible for Web-surfing art lovers to study 14 of the museum’s greatest works in minute detail without ever setting foot in Spain.

The project allows users of Google Earth to zoom in on high-resolution images of the works, scouring the canvas for details that would barely be visible to a museum visitor standing behind a velvet cordon.

Other major art museums, like the National Gallery in London, have made their collections available online, but the Prado is the first to produce such high-resolution reproductions on the Internet, Javier Rodr?guez Zapatero, director of Google Spain, said.

The 14 works include Diego Velazquez’s “Las Meninas,” Hieronymus Bosch’s tryptich, “The Garden of Earthly Delights” and Peter Paul Rubens’s “The Three Graces.”

Google Earth is a free geographical tool that uses satellite technology to produce maps, a virtual image of the earth and detailed views of everything from houses and famous buildings to corn fields…”

Loe edasi siin.

Kuidas vaadata:

1. Installi oma arvutisse Goodle Earth siit: http://earth.google.com/
2. Ava programm.
3. Kirjuta otsingusse “Museo del Prado” (otsing on vasakus ülemises nurgas, “Fly to…”). Vajuta luubi nupule. Avaneb Madridi kaart muuseumi kohaga.
4. Muuseumi ehitise peal leia link “Museo Nacional del Prado: Masterpieces” ja vajuta sellele.
5. Vali pilt ja vaata (üldpilt või detailides).

“Every art historian’s dream has come true.

The Italian masterpieces from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era viewable online at a stunning resolution. Free. [world exclusive]”

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