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

Greg Less greg.less at gmail.com
Fri Oct 1 14:51:05 EDT 2010


Thanks Ilse!

FYI - there is a small "en" icon in the upper right that will translate the
page to English.

-Gregoire.

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Heidi Lemon <heidi.ma2 at gmail.com> wrote:

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