{"id":3937,"date":"2012-06-20T07:40:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T07:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artcorner.com\/?p=3937"},"modified":"2012-06-20T07:40:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T07:40:08","slug":"google-makes-art-accessible-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/google-makes-art-accessible-to-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Makes Art Accessible to All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. Google.\u00a0The world\u2019s #1 search engine.\u00a0 Google. The same company who has been ensconced in a bitter battle with the publishing and author community over copyright.<\/p>\n<p>But Google has been doing something wonderful for the world community, bringing art, artists and museums to those who might have never been exposed to art before. And, even if they had, perhaps never have had (or ever will have) the opportunity to bring art collections and the museums in which they are housed delivered virtually to a user\u2019s computer.<\/p>\n<p>For the project to work properly, not any browser will do.\u00a0 Google\u2019s own browser, Chrome, is the key to delving into the 3D virtual world, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Google Art Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GOOGLE-ART-PROJECT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GOOGLE-ART-PROJECT-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"The Google Art Project\" title=\"The Google Art Project\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GOOGLE-ART-PROJECT-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GOOGLE-ART-PROJECT-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GOOGLE-ART-PROJECT-1024x646.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.overstockart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/GOOGLE-ART-PROJECT.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Many museums around the world are participants in this huge cultural undertaking. Over 100 international museums and galleries are participating in this project, among them, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Fricke Collection in New York, the Cloisters in New York, the MOMA in New York, the Freer Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian in Washington DC, the Hungarian National Gallery, the Leopold Museum in Vienna, the Munch Museum in Oslo, the Musee de l\u2019Orangerie in Paris, \u00a0Musee de Orsay in Paris, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Uffizi in Florence, the National Gallery in London, The National Gallery in Prague, the National Galleries in Scotland, \u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/vangogrprod.html\">van Gogh<\/a> Museum in Amsterdam, the White House and the Palace of Versailles \u2013 to name only a handful!<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen of these provide a virtual 3D view of the inside of the museum, using street view cameras to give a great 360 degree view of every floor of the participating museum. The technology used was a panoramic camera, lasers that calculated distances to the walls, motion sensors and a whole host of other technology to bring you inside your chosen museum.<\/p>\n<p>Each museum features a piece from their collection for Google\u2019s \u201cGigapixel Artwork.\u201d\u00a0 Google then photographed each piece using super high resolution, allowing viewers to study the piece of art in super-microscopic detail. The Uffizi\u2019s piece of Gigapixel Artwork? Botticelli\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/birthofvenuscenter.html\">The Birth of Venus.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go into the \u201cpartners\u201d section of the Project.\u00a0 From there, you can click on the museum or gallery of your choice. It brings you to the pieces which have been photographed and digitized by Google. From there, it gives details about the museum or gallery, how many artists and pieces of artwork are featured in that particular museum.<\/p>\n<p>The project makes fine art accessible to the masses, a worthwhile venture. Plus, it\u2019s search friendly.\u00a0 Know what museum you want to visit? Click on \u201cCollections\u201d in the upper left-hand corner. Know the name of the artwork you\u2019re looking for but not the artist?\u00a0 Click on \u201cArtworks.\u201d\u00a0 Looking for a particular artist? \u201cClick on \u201cArtist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So many artists\u2019 works are accessible:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/diegorivera.html\">Diego Rivera<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/cezannegallery1.html\">Paul Cezanne<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/monrep.html\">Claude Monet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/marcchagall.html\">Marc Chagall<\/a> \u2026 all the great masters, as well as some of the greatest works of art ever created!<\/p>\n<p>A virtual visitor can spend HOURS perusing the site, as one delves deeper and deeper into its offerings, while having the opportunity \u2013 and capability \u2013 of creating your own personal gallery of favorites on the site.\u00a0 Try it to experience the next step in art appreciation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. Google.\u00a0The world\u2019s #1 search engine.\u00a0 Google. The same company who has been ensconced in a bitter battle with the publishing and author community over copyright. But Google has been doing something wonderful for the world community, bringing art, artists and museums to those who might have never been exposed to art before. And, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":3969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google Makes Art Accessible to All - ArtCorner: A Blog by overstockArt.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/google-makes-art-accessible-to-all\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google Makes Art Accessible to All - ArtCorner: A Blog by overstockArt.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yes. 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