Google Art Project: more, better
ARTinvestment.RU   04 апреля 2012

Draft Google, dedicated to the art, and now shows an online collection of 134 museums in 40 countries

Google Art Project has started in February 2011 and became an important step to increase the presence of serious art the online environment. The site, created using the same technology as the Google Street View, originally proposed a virtual tour of 17 museums in 9 countries. Among the museums were represented by such giants of the art world, like New York's MoMA and the Museum of London's Tate Gallery.

And the site presented an updated version: now, without leaving your computer, you can visit with the help of 134 museums in 40 countries - is impressive, is not it? And while not every museum can still take a full virtual tour, meeting each of the represented institutions can be studied with the help of collections of images of objects and paintings from his collection in high definition.

When you create a new version site was considered criticism is the fact that initially the project will be too Eurocentric and not lit museums in the U.S. collections. The rebirth of the project, according to its creators, involves the creation of a "balance between the regional museums and museums of national and global importance." Now a virtual tour using Google Art Project, among other things, you can take the White House, National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, the Museum of Getty Fine Arts Gallery of New South Wales (Australia). Among the interesting new site - the images from the collection of rock paintings of the Australian Museum (Australian Rock Art Collection), a magnificent Qur'an XIV century from the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as well as powerful an abstract work of Imre Bak (Imre Bak) from the Hungarian National Gallery.

Getty Museum to Google rasstaralsya heartily: with the help of special equipment was shot picture Rembrandt (Rembrandt) «The Rape of Europe" with a resolution of seven billion pixels. Previously, such an honor awarded only some of the most important masterpieces of the world such as "Starry Night" by Van Gogh (Van Gogh) from the collection of MoMA.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source : artinfo.com , artinvestment.ru