[Cynnabar] Fwd: [Medieval Trivia] \Italian Artworks Online

[Heidi Lemon]

It is all in italian, but the art is beautiful, and a bonus....it may help
us with Garb.

Ilse


*ROME ­ Imagine being so close to Botticelli's Venus thaat you can see the
strands of her blond hair, the shades of pink in her cheeks, the cracks in
the centuries-old paint. That sensation is now just a click away. This week,
an Italian company has put high-resolution images online of "The Birth of
Venus" and five other masterpieces from the Uffizi gallery in Florence,
including works by Caravaggio and Leonardo da Vinci. By zooming in with the
click of a mouse, the smallest details can appear — even onnes that aren't
ordinarily visible. The images have a resolution of up to 28 billion pixels
— about 3,000 times sstronger than that of an average digital camera. The
images are available to view free until Jan. 29 at the Web site
http://www.haltadefinizione.com.
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