[Editor’s note: Google has started to add museum collections to Google Earth. The Prada in Madrid includes a self portrait by Albrecht Dürer, Las Meninas, the dark Goyas, and the Fusilamientos del Tres de Mayo. Video includes section on how Google took the photos. Thanks KL!]
Republished from the Duke
Original January 14th, 2009 by Randy Riddle.
Google has added the El Prado museum to Google Earth, allowing you to not only see the buildings, but to do a “virtual tour†of 14 paintings in the collections, viewing them in incredible detail – each painting is captured and presented in 14 billion pixels.
Below is a short video and you can also read a blog post at Gizmodo about the project.