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Art Historians Rejoice: Google Earth and The Prado Bring Masterpieces Up Close - Really Close
ReadWriteWeb —
... To access the pieces from The Prado, turn on 3D buildings in Google Earth. Then fly to "Prado Museum Spain." You can choose to wander around the museum or click on the collection icon to peruse the available works. ...
View 14 gigapixel images of The Prado Museum's masterpieces via Google Earth
Obsessable News Feed —
A joint venture between Google Earth and The Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, offers art lovers and students a detailed digital view into masterpieces.
The Prado Musem (Museo Nacional del Prado) in Prado, Spain, now has a virtual presence in Google Earth as well as the ability to view several of their pieces of art via Google Maps, although the full screen, extremely detailed fourteen gigapixel images of the artwork is only available by using Google Earth. Fourteen gigapixel is 14,000 megapixels ...
And you can tell all your friends you work for Google
GMSV —
... gives the resellers a 20 percent discount on the $50-per-user price, plus training, support, tools, and full control of the customer relationship, while it handles the hosting chores. Elsewhere in the wide world of Google: * Here’s another way you can help out the company (and fellow users) if you’re so inclined. You know how annoying it is when you do a search for product reviews, click on a link and arrive at a page bereft of a single review? Rat ‘em out . * With the new Prado layer in Google Earth, you can fly around the Madrid museum, then zoom in to an ...
Art History 101 with Google - Earth Takes Users to the Prado
Cult of Mac —
... Proving it really is the coolest company on the web, Google unveiled this week the Prado layer in Google Earth, an amazing bit of functionality that lets users zoom into almost any spot on the planet for a detailed view of what’s to be found there using the company’s earth mapping product. ...
Google Earth's Virtual Prado Museum
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
... has long been a destination for art lovers. In the company of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Louvre Museum in France, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Prado is home to countless masterpieces of western art. Unfortunately, the options for viewing its contents have always been either hopping a plane to Madrid, or thumbing through printed reproductions that pale in comparison to the original works. Luckily, there's now a third option with Google Earth's Prado Museum feature, which offers ultra high resolution photos of 14 of the museum's masterpieces. ...
