Google’s Art Project: Tour the World’s Finest Paintings In Eye-Blasting Resolution

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Google has taken itsstreet viewcameras inside some of the world ’s most celebrated museums . The solution ? A stunningly mellow - resolution trove of paintings that would otherwise be an ocean forth . And here ’s how they did it .

It ’s been an 18 - calendar month recollective journeying for Google , as the ship’s company ’s camera ’s dutiful recorded 360 degree circuit of 17 artistic production museums — including the Smithsonian , London ’s National Gallery , the Met , MoMA , Uffizi , and other heavy - hitters — and over a thousand high - closure painting . Each individual museum has also chosen one piece to showcase in 7 billion pixels . It ’s clean enough that you could see the brushwork better than you ever could leaning behind the crimson velvet roach .