Google has done search, email, documents, video, and now…
Art.
From the Alte Nationalgalerie of Berlin to the Metropolitan in New York to the National Gallery of London, Google has taken extremely high resolution images of some of the most famous artwork and put it online. View the artwork online and create your own gallery of favourites.
Learn more at the Google Art Project.
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Via The NewsGallery: THE GOOGLE ART PROJECT: BEHIND THE SCENES VIDEO: http://bit.ly/BSGap
Nice, but they are a shill
Nice, but they are a shill for the museums. Why not have art searchable worldwide, rather than going from one museum to another? This is an electronic copy of a paper catalog of the different museums- why not be able to see all the Cezanne’s world wide, rather than hunting from one library to another?
It would also be helpful to photograph their entire collections, not just the best. Not only would this be a security enhancement, but also scholars would be able to see those less-than-famous paintings not on daily displays.