Have you heard of Google's Art Project?
An interesting website, indeed...
Google has recently launched a website named Art Project. The way it works is very similar to Google Earth. It adapts the same "street view" technology but wait for it... wait for it... in museums...
You can now walk in seventeen museums (van Gogh museum, MoMA, the Met, Palace of Versailles, etc.) and view their collections from the comfort of your home. You can stand in front of a specific artwork and watch it for as long as you want without getting distracted or having to move forward because others are either bumping into you or are annoyed by you blocking their view... :)
Also, these museums each have selected a number of known pieces by artists such as van Gogh, Monet, Gauguin, Rembrandt and Jacques Rousseau and allow the viewer to zoom in at extremely high levels of detail such that one might be able to find never-before-observed details in a certain painting... go ahead and indulge yourself in this amazing virtual collection...
Of course the website is very new and its collection of museums and masterpieces is limited... however, apparently more works are to be added soon...
As much as I enjoy this project and will certainly go back to check out new additions, I personally like the good old fashioned museum excursions... the whole experience of waiting in queues, renting audio commentaries, bumping into tourists, hitting the museum gift shops and most important of all getting lost in hallways of museums among decades of talent and history...
Enjoy...
Google Project Art: http://www.googleartproject.com/
Google has recently launched a website named Art Project. The way it works is very similar to Google Earth. It adapts the same "street view" technology but wait for it... wait for it... in museums...
You can now walk in seventeen museums (van Gogh museum, MoMA, the Met, Palace of Versailles, etc.) and view their collections from the comfort of your home. You can stand in front of a specific artwork and watch it for as long as you want without getting distracted or having to move forward because others are either bumping into you or are annoyed by you blocking their view... :)
Also, these museums each have selected a number of known pieces by artists such as van Gogh, Monet, Gauguin, Rembrandt and Jacques Rousseau and allow the viewer to zoom in at extremely high levels of detail such that one might be able to find never-before-observed details in a certain painting... go ahead and indulge yourself in this amazing virtual collection...
Of course the website is very new and its collection of museums and masterpieces is limited... however, apparently more works are to be added soon...
As much as I enjoy this project and will certainly go back to check out new additions, I personally like the good old fashioned museum excursions... the whole experience of waiting in queues, renting audio commentaries, bumping into tourists, hitting the museum gift shops and most important of all getting lost in hallways of museums among decades of talent and history...
Enjoy...
Google Project Art: http://www.googleartproject.com/
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