Google Art Project unlocks world galleries
Summary: The web giant's ambitious project, created in conjunction with 17 major art galleries, has digitised thousands of artworks and brought Street View technology to museum collections
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Google Art Project gigapixel image
Pictured above is an extreme close-up of the gigapixel artwork from the Tate Britain, No Woman, No Cry (1998) by Chris Ofili.
Google said that it gave the museums free rein to choose the artworks to be included in the Art Project. Other super high-resolution images in the collection include Van Gogh's The Starry Night in New York's Museum of Modern Art; Rembrandt's The Night Watch in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum; and Botticelli's The Birth of Venus in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
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