Silly Little Country

Is the Technology Cool or is it Cool?

Well, what you can do with it is certainly cool.

Now, Google is teaming up with Spain’s Prado Museum to bring armchair tourists access to 14 of Spain’s most treasured works of art, including works by Francisco de Goya, Diego Velázquez and Hieronymus Bosch—all in stunningly high-resolution detail.

Google Earth’s technology allows users to get close enough to examine a painter's brushstrokes or the craquelure (small cracks) on the varnish of a painting. The images of these works are about 14,000 million pixels, 1,400 times more detailed than the image a 10-megapixel digital camera would take.

And yes the Bosch is the magnificent Garden of Heavenly Earthly Delights.

posted by Alan Adamson @ 6:46 PM