Google becomes the great patron of the art virtual, but real. Art Project is an initiative in London that makes it accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world with Internet access, hundreds of works of art. 
Seventeen major museums including the Uffizi in Florence, have collaborated on the project by opening their doors to cameras and technicians Google using the same technology Mobile Street View have "mapped" the interior of the tunnels allowing you to create a 360 degree virtual tour. "It's a great step forward - said Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery, which hosted the presentation of the project - both for the unprecedented collaboration between museums and for the opportunity to learn the art up close to millions of people '.
17 museums in 3D. 
The new site allows then to visit the rooms of museums, seeing in three dimensions, moving from room to room, but also stopping in front of work preferred to look at in detail, with a click or deepen its history or more information about the artist. It's not all: each of the seventeen museums that have participated in Art Project has also chosen a work of particular significance that has been photographed using 'giga pixel', about 7 billion for each image pixel high-definition, a thousand times more of a defined digital camera. 
zoom in on each stroke each figure, each stroke of the framework can then be examined with a zoom microscope, revealing details as to the human eye. The Uffizi, for example, chose "The Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli, and even those who think you know this already well known framework will discover with astonishment the veins of the leaves, flower petals, the texture of fabrics and every slight touch of the artist's brush. 
Visible Over a thousand works over a thousand works can be seen in great detail, representing 486 artists from around the world, from Rembdrandt Chris Ofili, El Greek to Seurat. The seventeen museums that are participating in Art Project, in Europe, the Tate and National Gallery in London, the Alte Nationalgalerie and the Gemäldegalerie of Berlin, the Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh ilmuseo Amsterdam, the Palace of Versailles in France, the Hermitage and the Tretyakov Gallery in Russia. They are part of the project to four American museums: the Museum of Modern Art, the Frick Collection and the Metropolitan in New York and the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery in Washington DC. Poorly Prado, Louvre museum and Italians on the list are absent from large - like the Prado or the Louvre or the many Italian museums - but said Amit Sood, Head of Art Project, the seventeen were chosen because they had already discovered the potential Internet and had been prepared to choose innovation. Negotiations are continuing with other museums and institutions and Art Project, stress the Google experts, will continue to grow, adding more works of art and to innovate constantly. In the coming months, said Nelson Mattos, vice president of engineering at Google, the group intends to study carefully how the Website is used, how, by whom and for what purpose, to improve the tools available to users.
Custom Collection and shared an instrument already available, for example, allows you to create a custom collection, selecting and saving a number of favorite paintings or, using the zoom, even a series of details of works of art. The collection can then be shared using the share, both with family and friends, both teachers and professors with their students. Mattos said that this is the most important thing for him: "I was born and raised in Brazil, where there are not many museums. For me to see pictures was a dream. Now with Art Project million children in Latin America, India or Africa can visit the art galleries and look closely at the pictures. The art has been hidden to most people for too long, now finally becoming accessible to everyone. "
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