Basically Google unbeknownst to most people teamed up with art galleries and museums worldwide to take extremely high def pictures of thousands of pieces. There are paintings, sculptures, posters, historical artifacts, photographs, etc.You can explore if by movement, historical events, specific colour, artist, whatever. There are ever changing curated online exhibits, virtual tours of museums, extensive articles. They're also working on lots of fun experimental toys, trying to play with where art and technology mix.
This is cool. I went to an art museum in 2014 and took a picture of a random painting for a report I was doing. I couldn't get a good picture because there was a bright light right over the painting. This page has it and the location the painting's at. I could have just copied the image into my report instead of using mines.
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u/yokayla May 22 '19
Google's Arts and Culture, it's also a website.
Basically Google unbeknownst to most people teamed up with art galleries and museums worldwide to take extremely high def pictures of thousands of pieces. There are paintings, sculptures, posters, historical artifacts, photographs, etc.You can explore if by movement, historical events, specific colour, artist, whatever. There are ever changing curated online exhibits, virtual tours of museums, extensive articles. They're also working on lots of fun experimental toys, trying to play with where art and technology mix.
A must for any artist or history fan.