Google has a special team extreme close-ups allow creating famous paintings, including in several Dutch museums. The new project – called the Art Camera – announced yesterday
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The special camera has made thousands of scans of each painting. The photos are one billion pixels. The scans are stitched together by special software for the complete picture. This makes it possible to see details that would otherwise remain hidden to the naked eye.
A trip to the museum is no longer necessary, says Google. “Say you want to see the six portraits of the Roulin family by Vincent Van Gogh closely. That you had before we announced this project to the Netherlands, Los Angeles and New York. Now, thanks to the Art Camera no longer needed. Those traveling presented to you, ” said a spokesman for Google.
Google on Tuesday the first thousand paintings. These are works by Van Gogh, among others, Monet, Cézanne, and Titian Weissenbruchstraat. Some thirty of thousand scanned paintings hang in Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam
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