Monday, February 7, 2011

Amazing Art Project from Google

Google launched a terrific service for the naming of Google Art Project. Now you have a great opportunity to not getting up off the couch to run through the galleries and museums around the world, read all the interesting information about the selected objects, and even create your own collection of art objects from the world's masterpieces, which are shown with amazing accuracy and a survey of 360 degrees. And as you can in the smallest detail view images. The quality of each masterpiece - 7 giga pixels!
Google has already said - the project is not commercial and does not bring profits. It is designed for anyone who would like to visit museums in the world, but has no such opportunity. Moreover, it also provides an opportunity to consider the fine details of paintings that, in principle, sometimes unrealistic, even in the museum or gallery.

At this point in the project involved 17 museums of the world:

- Old National Gallery in Berlin (Germany)
- Art Gallery in Berlin (Germany)
- The Hermitage in St. Petersburg (Russia)
- Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (Russia)
- Versailles in Paris (France)
- Museum of Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid (Spain)
- Centre of Art Reina Sofia in Madrid (Spain)
- Uffizi Gallery in Florence (Italy)
- The National Gallery in London (England)
- The Tate Gallery in London (England)
- Museum Kampa in Prague (Czech Republic)
- Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Reyksmuzey in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Freer Art Gallery in Washington (USA)
- Frick Collection in New York (USA)
- Museum of Modern Art in New York (USA)
- Metropolitan Museum in New York (USA)







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