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Sandro Botticelli's "Birth of Venus," left, and Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" are included in the project. (Corbis, The Museum of Modern Art) Google is bringing its "street view" technology indoors. With the launch of the Google Art Project , announced at a press conference in London this morning, Google jumps into the online art arena with tools that will allow web surfers to move through 17 of the most prominent art galleries in the world, with the option to look more closely at individual art works, including some that will be digitized so exhaustively that individual paint strokes and hairline cracks in the surface will be visible.
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Google Art Project, les musées à portée de clic - Libération
Par LÉONARD BILLOT Google entretient sa gloutonnerie culturelle. Sept ans après avoir imaginé Google Books, bibliothèque virtuelle regroupant 10 millions d’ouvrages accessibles en ligne, le géant américain s’est lancé mercredi dernier dans la numérisation d’œuvres d’art. Avec Art Project, fini les groupes de touristes excités occultant les toiles de maîtres. Après un an de travail en collaboration avec dix-sept musées internationaux (le MoMa de New York, la Tate Britain à Londres, le château de Versailles, etc.), la firme californienne propose de visiter virtuellement les hauts lieux artistiques mondiaux sans sortir de chez soi.
Google has taken its 360-degree Street View cameras into some of the most famous and acclaimed galleries, to open the world’s art collection to the internet. From the Tate Britain in London to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Google Art Project lets you browse 385 rooms in 17 galleries, and see more than 1,000 works by 486 artists. Each of the galleries has selected one piece of artwork to be photographed in staggeringly high resolution , with each of the 17 images containing around 7 billion pixels. Zoom in close enough, and you can see individual brushstrokes, hairline cracks in the canvas and microscopic details that are almost invisible to the naked eye — like tiny Latin messages scrawled on Hans Holbein the Younger’s The Merchant Georg Gisze , pictured above, in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
Google Art Project Is Street View for Galleries and Museums | Underwire | Wired.com
Google’s Art Project
Google has recently launched Art Project , a collaboration with some of the world’s most famous museums, with the goal of empowering people to discover and view more than a thousand renowned artworks online – even when they’re unable to travel to visit each museum. The benefit for Google? It showcases Street View technology by employing it to allow visitors to the site to virtually around the museum’s galleries’ and navigating interactive floor plans. Artwork View allows visitors to select featured works of art to view in high resolution, and to learn more about each piece, including related YouTube videos. The benefit for visitors? Enjoying art education and appreciation during times when a physical visit to each museum isn’t feasible.
Avec Google Art Project, l'art s'expose à 360 degrés - 20minutes.fr
oogle fait entrer sa technologie Street View au musée. Street View ? C'est le nom du procédé imaginé par la compagnie de Mountain View dès 2004 pour nous repérer dans la rue.
Depuis deux jours, le web (et notamment le web « culturel », mais pas seulement) s'enthousiasme pour le dernier-né des projets développés par Google, Google Art Project . Le principe est compréhensible facilement : Google Art Project, sur le modèle de Google Street View, permet de visiter virtuellement des musées en offrant aux visiteurs une vue à 360°, un déplacement dans les salles. On peut aussi zoomer sur quelques œuvres photographiées avec une très haute résolution et pouvoir en apprécier tous les détails, certainement mieux que ce qu'on pourrait faire en visitant réellement le musée. Et donc, tout le monde s'extasie devant ce nouveau projet, qui permet de se promener au musée Van Gogh d'Amsterdam, au château de Versailles, à l'Hermitage, à la National Gallery de Londres, etc. En effet c'est surprenant, intéressant, on peut s'amuser à se promener dans les musées.
Google Art Project : vision critique - Compteurdedit
One of the things I love about working at Google is that you can come up with an idea one day and the next day start getting to work to make it a reality. That's what happened with the Art Project —a new tool we're announcing today which puts more than 1,000 works of art at your fingertips, in extraordinary detail. It started when a small group of us who were passionate about art got together to think about how we might use our technology to help museums make their art more accessible—not just to regular museum-goers or those fortunate to have great galleries on their doorsteps, but to a whole new set of people who might otherwise never get to see the real thing up close. We're also lucky here to have access to technology like Picasa and App Engine and to have colleagues who love a challenge—like building brand-new technology to enable Street View to go indoors!
Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project
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Art Project, powered by Google
Gone are the days of jet-setting to galleries in Manhattan, Florence, London, or Madrid. As of yesterday, all you need to become a museum maven is an Internet connection. Google Art Project , the brainchild of a small group of art-happy Google employees, brings the Street View technology of Google Earth and Google Maps inside 17 museums around the world. The roster includes The Uffizi, the Tate Britain, The Met, MoMA, and the Van Gogh Museum.