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REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 2:56 PM To: [email protected]; 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: [Futurework] FW: Google Art Project This may be of interest. arthur <http://www.googleartproject.com/> http://www.googleartproject.com/ Google opened 17 museums in the world for the virtual visiting Google Art Project - a seventeen museums from nine countries, 385 showrooms, 400 artists and 1060 pictures in high resolution. Anyone who has Internet access, now can visit the Metropolitan Museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, Tate and Hermitage exhibits and view them in such detail that no available even in real life. Do fans as long as Google does not specialists photographed at high resolution picture of the famous "Harvest (August) "by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, director of the Tate Gallery in London. Did not know that it depicts the traditional Fat Tuesday for a game during which the peasants throw a stick tied to a pole in the goose. The actual size of the figures of these people in the background does not exceed a few millimeters, so consider them in a picture that is stored Metropolitan Museum, almost impossible. Rather, it was impossible. Google Art Project was launched eighteen months ago the usual format for the company: most of the day staff perform their duties, but a fifth of working hours they are allowed to to spend on side projects that interest them. So in some point, all art lovers to unite and decide to Google use available technology. No one has ever collected in a single database and systematized the work of the various museums in the world, creating more than just a collection of reproductions. Secondly, the Google project is interactive: You can create your list of masterpieces and share them with friends. Third, Street View allows you to literally "walk" through the halls famous museums. The image of each of them consists of approximately seven billions of pixels, that is, their resolution is a thousand times higher than that a simple digital photo. Because of this increase can be consider not only the peasant Bruegel, but the thinnest strokes minute details and cracks in the paint. There are other features - to example, a picture, "No, woman, no cry" of the Tate Gallery can be Watch a special "night" mode to see its hidden by Chris Ofili inscription is visible only in the full darkness. Pictures Google Art Project, available at high resolution: "Bedroom at Arles Artist" Vincent Van Gogh "Starry Night" Vincent Van Gogh "Madame Manet in the greenhouse," Edouard Manet "Princess Porcelain Kingdom" James Whistler "St. Francis of Assisi in the Desert" by Giovanni Bellini "Portrait of George Gittsa" Hans Holbein the younger "Council" Frantisek Kupka "Harvest (August)," Pieter Bruegel the elder 'Bottle' Anis del Mono "," Juan Gris "The young knight in a landscape," Vittore Carpaccio "Ambassadors" Hans Holbein the younger "Marie Antoinette with Children" Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun "Night Watch" Rembrandt "" The Return of the Prodigal Son Rembrandt "The Appearance of Christ to the people," Alexander Ivanov "No, woman, no cry" Chris Ofili "The Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli
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