For Your Artists/Art Tutors

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Link 1: Art Project, powered by Google

 

Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.

 

Link 2: Art Project, powered by Google [FAQ]

 

Pictures are well rendered and not too slow to display fully.

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Added to The Google Art Project Website:

 

Link: The White House - Google Art Project

 

A virtual tour of The Whitehouse and the art housed there: 139 artworks by 96 artists.

 

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Update:

 

...Today Google has added 20 more museums, 1,500 new high-resolution artworks and 16 Gigapixel images to the project...

 

Now, apparently, working in IE [10]

 

http://i.snag.gy/NUqQr.jpg

 

[Not all menu items tested: Some parts of the website may not work (still)]

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What I find interesting is that of the 157 works for the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, only 8 are hanging on the walls. I know the gallery has a huge collection that never sees the light of day. You can arrange to view a work, but selecting a painting from a list is very hit a miss. It looks to be the same for the Art Gallery of South Australia too, so I assume it to be the case for all galleries. It's nice that they are going into the archives.