With a few clicks of a mouse, she was able to show a minuscule wasp perched on a flower above the Three Graces and a crystal-clear teardrop in the eye of a figure in Rogier van der Weyden's Descent from the Cross. "You would need a three-metre-high step-ladder," said Clara Rivera of Google, who thought up the idea of a gigapixel gallery. Some of the masterpieces, such as the 3.3 by 2.8 metre portrait of Charles V, are so huge that it is impossible to get close enough to the original to see some details. The images were sewn together digitally from more than 8,000 high resolution photographs taken over six months. They need to enable the programme's 3D option and then travel to Madrid and click the button marking the Prado building.
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People wanting to view the masterpieces must first download and install Google Earth. "These are 14 of the most important works in the museum," said the Prado's director, Miguel Zugaza. Other works include Goya's Third of May, Rubens's The Three Graces, and Titian's huge portrait The Emperor Charles V. Even the stitching used to sew the vast canvas together is visible. Velázquez's famous portrait of the family of Philip IV, Las Meninas, is among the works that can be viewed in the sort of detail that would otherwise require art lovers to glue their noses to the canvas. As of yesterday they can also crawl all over masterpieces by the likes of Bosch, Francisco de Goya, Diego Velázquez, Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt.įourteen of the gallery's finest masterpieces can now be seen online in almost microscopic detail. "You can see details that the human eye alone is unable to see," the museum said.Īrmchair internet tourists are used to travelling the online globe generated by Google Earth's satellite and aerial photograph technology to visit exotic places or snoop on the homes of friends and relatives. With a resolution of 14,000 megapixels (or about 1,400 times the definition of a standard 10 megapixel camera) the images of the 14 Prado masterpieces are so precise that even the individual brushstrokes on Bosch's human flower pot can be seen. Under an agreement unveiled with the Prado yesterday, the internet search engine company Google will deploy technology used by its Google Earth global mapping programme to hang a gigapixel gallery of Prado masterpieces on the internet. Those who visit the oil painting at Madrid's venerable Prado museum cannot always find the figure, however, among all the naked bodies and eye-popping torture scenes on the Dutch master's famous triptych.įor those who have gone away disappointed, however, help is finally at hand. Connoisseurs of early modern smut know that somewhere in Hieronymus Bosch's 16th-century Garden of Earthly Delights there is a nude figure with a posy of flowers sticking out of its bottom.
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