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Explore the masterpieces of the Prado Museum up close with Google Earth
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 9:45 AM Today Google launches the Prado layer in Google Earth allowing you to explore highly detailed photographic images of fourteen of the Prado Museum's masterpieces. The Prado Museum in Madrid is one of Spain's most visited destinations and via the Google Earth ...
The Prado in Google Earth
google.com — View in Google Earth To enjoy the masterpieces of the Prado in full-screen and a 3D reproduction of the museum, follow the instructions below. I already have Google Earth | I don't have Google Earth yet Open Google Earth by clicking on the Earth icon ... (more) The Prado in Google Earth
View 14 gigapixel images of The Prado Museum's masterpieces via Google Earth
View 14 gigapixel images of The Prado Museum's masterpieces via Google Earth
obsessable.com — This is amazing. every museum in the world should do this! (more) View 14 gigapixel images of The Prado Museum's ...
Google Earth Publishes Stunning 14 GIGApixel Photos of El Prado Masterpieces [Art]
Google Earth Publishes Stunning 14 GIGApixel Photos of El Prado Masterpieces [Art]
i.gizmodo.com — One of the best things of being back in Madrid is El Prado, which has some of the most amazing paintings ever. Now you can see them in Google Earth, at a stunning 14-billion-pixel resolution. Although there's nothing comparable—in my case, to the ... (more) Google Earth Publishes Stunning 14 GIGApixel Photos of ...
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Google Earth gets ultra-high-resolution artwork
Webware.com — ... ) is getting new imagery from inside buildings. One, at least: A new layer gives viewers gigapixel (ultra-high-resolution) photos of artwork from inside the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. The Prado project also includes detailed exterior views of the museum's buildings. See Google's blog post on the new layer. ...

Art Historians Rejoice: Google Earth and The Prado Bring Masterpieces Up Close - Really Close
ReadWriteWeb — ... in Madrid, Spain. Now, thanks to this groundbreaking project, you can get closer to the masterpieces of The Prado than you ever imagined - using ...

Explore Prado Museum in Google Earth using Prado layer
D' Technology Weblog — ... Google launched the Prado layer in Google Earth allowing you to explore highly detailed photographic images of fourteen of the Prado Museum’s masterpieces. The ...

View 14 gigapixel images of The Prado Museum's masterpieces via Google Earth
Obsessable News Feed — ... or 14,000,000,000 pixels. Imagine the detail of your typical high end DSLR camera with a 14 megapixel censor and then imagine that a thousand times more detailed and you'll start to understand how insanely detailed this is. With pictures this detailed of masterpieces of art, viewers can zoom in to details that one normally wouldn't notice, especially from regular online viewing, let alone in person. As noted by Google's LatLong blog: ...

And you can tell all your friends you work for Google
GMSV — ... in Google Earth, you can fly around the Madrid museum, then zoom in to an eyelash’s distance from canvases by Velasquez, Rembrandt and other masters, displayed in ultra-high resolution. ...

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Spain's Prado Museum has teamed up with Google Earth for a project that allows people to zoom in on the gallery's main works _ even on details not immediately discernible to the human eye. The initiative, announced Tuesday, is the first of its kind ...