Google art project

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More than a thousand works of art from 17 museums in the world are now available online as part of the Art Project!

Today, Google is introducing an art project , the result of a unique collaboration between Google and world famous museums. Now you can get to know and consider in great detail more than a thousand works of art on googleartproject.com .

The project involves 17 art museums, including the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. The site googleartproject.comThe collection of gigapixel images of the most famous works of art is presented and thousands of photographs of other magnificent works are collected. Using panoramic Street View technology, virtual tours of the halls of art galleries were created.

Now any person, no matter what country he is in, can learn more about works of art from different countries of the world, about their history and creators.

Museums helped us choose collections for the project, select the optimal shooting angle for the works, compose an accompanying text, and provide audio and video materials. The virtual collection includes such masterpieces as “The Return of the Prodigal Son ” by Rembrandt from the State Hermitage Museum, “ The Appearance of Christ to the People"Alexander Ivanov from the State Tretyakov Gallery," The Birth of Venus "by Botticelli, a composition by contemporary British artist Chris Ofile" No Woman No Cry ", post-impressionist paintings by Cezanne, Byzantine icons, Versailles ceiling paintings and interiors of ancient Egyptian temples, works by Whistler and Rembrandt's paintings .

You can navigate galleries, select works of art that interest you, read information about them, or look at the smallest details of images of those works that were captured in ultra-high resolution (each such image consists of 14 billion pixels). On the information tab, you can read the accompanying text about the work, find other works by the same artist and watch YouTube videos telling about the picture, as well as listen to audio files.

To create a panorama of the interiors of museums, Google specialists specially modified the equipment used to create the Street View service. The filming results were brought together, and now all users can easily "walk" through 385 halls of different galleries in the world.

In addition, users of the art projectwill be able to create their own collections and send links to them to their friends, who, in turn, will be able to comment on their favorite work.

Museums in the project:

Old National Gallery , Berlin, Germany
The Fryer Art Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution , Washington, USA
The Frick Collection , New York, USA The
Berlin Art Gallery , Berlin, Germany The
Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, USA
The Museum of Modern Art , New York, USA
Reina Sofia Museum , Madrid, Spain
Thyssen Museum - Bornemisi , Madrid, Spain
Campa Museum , Prague, Czech Republic
National Gallery, London, Great Britain
Versailles Palace , France
State Museum , Amsterdam, Netherlands
State Hermitage Museum , St. Petersburg, Russia
State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow, Russia
Tate Gallery , London, Great Britain
Uffizi Gallery , Florence, Italy
Van Gogh Museum , Amsterdam, Netherlands

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