When it comes the world of Art and famous museums around the world there has been an unexpected boost visibility from an unexpected source. New reports hit the internet recently that Google earth and the world famous Prado Museum in Spain have teamed up to achieve a first for Google earth and any museum.
Google earths team over a period of three months took a total of 8,200 pictures of 14 specially selected paintings to be displayed in the project. Those 8,200 photos were then put into Google earths technology and uploaded to their system. So now anyone from anywhere around the world with access to the Google earth program can zoom all the way into the Prado Museum in Spain and see anyone of these 14 paintings. The level of zoom and clarity that you will be able to see on the internet is beyond even what the human eye can see. Three of the fourteen paintings that I see being mentioned the most are Diego Velázquez’s “Las Meninas,” Francisco de Goya’s “Third of May” and Peter Paul Rubens’ “The Three Graces” all of which including the other eleven can be seen now with incredible clarity.
It really is a truly amazing achievement that they are able to apply this technology to works of art. Imagine the applications for the future even if they were to just keep it to museums. I was blown away like most people the first time I saw Google earth and their street view feature but to bring it all the way down to a painting in a museum is a technological work of art. I for one hope this is just the beginning of applications like this.
What do you think of this type of zoom capability on Google Earth? Should they do more projects like the Prado Museum experiment or should they keep their picture taking to the street levels?
The Prado Arts Comes To Google Earth
When it comes the world of Art and famous museums around the world there has been an unexpected boost visibility from an unexpected source. New reports hit the internet recently that Google earth and the world famous Prado Museum in Spain have teamed up to achieve a first for Google earth and any museum.
Google earths team over a period of three months took a total of 8,200 pictures of 14 specially selected paintings to be displayed in the project. Those 8,200 photos were then put into Google earths technology and uploaded to their system. So now anyone from anywhere around the world with access to the Google earth program can zoom all the way into the Prado Museum in Spain and see anyone of these 14 paintings. The level of zoom and clarity that you will be able to see on the internet is beyond even what the human eye can see. Three of the fourteen paintings that I see being mentioned the most are Diego Velázquez’s “Las Meninas,” Francisco de Goya’s “Third of May” and Peter Paul Rubens’ “The Three Graces” all of which including the other eleven can be seen now with incredible clarity.
What do you think of this type of zoom capability on Google Earth? Should they do more projects like the Prado Museum experiment or should they keep their picture taking to the street levels?