I was able to get a super zoom by going to the Prado Museum's website....check 
out those pleats on Durer's self portrait.

Sg

> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:44:30 -0700
> Subject: Re: [h-cost] Google Earth and art museums
> 
> 
> Were you able to get it to work?  I tried the google earth link but just got 
> the roof of the the prado.  BTW, I couldn't get to it just using prado 
> museum.  You have to add Spain to the search.
> 
> Sg
> 
> > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:25:13 -0800
> > From: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [h-cost] Google Earth and art museums
> > 
> > I saw this today and it sounds like it would be cool for historical costume 
> > research based on paintings. So far it is only 1 museum and 14 paintings 
> > but the article implies they'll add more eventually. 
> > 
> > http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090113/ap_on_hi_te/eu_spain_google_art
> > 
> > "Spain's Prado Museum has teamed up with Google Earth for a project that 
> > allows people to zoom in on the gallery's main works — even on details not 
> > immediately discernible to the human eye."
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Mary / Slaine
> > 
> > 
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