Monday, January 26, 2009

Paintings in the Prado, in Super High-Res, on Google Earth!

This is so totally cool.

Okay a while ago I wrote about "How to Look Inside a Painting," a presentation where I talk about the way a painting is done and how it reflects the actions and the attitude of the artist. Then, I wrote about how a drawing is a recording of the artist in that time and place. Here's the presentation:

Now, you can see paintings in the Prado Museum in Spain in ultra-high resolution, down to the brushstroke, right from your screen. Totally cool. Now you can look at the work of masters, and consider every detail of how they made these images. Click here to go to the Google Blog, where they explain and tell you how to set it up. You can view it either through Google Earth or through Google Maps. They're both, as I said, totally cool.

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