ON VIEW: The Google Art Project includes the head of Aphrodite
from ancient Greece, Paul Revere’s Sons of Liberty Bowl, above, and
Claude Monet’s ‘Rouen Cathedral.’
Google’s stroke of genius
Web giant gives ‘tour’ of world museums
By Gary J. Remal
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 -
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 -
Boston’s
Museum of Fine Arts hung 233 of its greatest works of on the walls of
the world yesterday thanks to the technical wizardry of tech-giant
Google’s latest Art Project.
“It gives you all kinds of really interesting ways to look at the works of art,” MFA’s Karen Frascona said of the effort to digitally display the masterpieces online. “There’s different angles and ways to zoom in and out. It gives you a very in-depth look.”
The museum sent Debra LaKind, director of business development and strategic partnerships, to Paris for one of two launch parties yesterday.
Piotr Adamczyk, data lead for the Google project, hopes it will
blossom into an ongoing online display of revolving art work from the
great museums of the world.
“The first round we needed a proof of concept, just to make sure the museums and Google could work well with each other,” he said. “Now we’ve grown and shown it scales well.”
Google is displaying a tiny fraction of the MFA’s collection of more than 450,000 works of art, Frascona said, most of the rest is already on the MFA website.
Google now displays in high resolution more than 30,000 works of art from 151 institutions in 40 countries, including those from 29 American museums and the White House.
Users can search in a number of ways, including a feature that allows visitors to virtually stroll through hundreds of museum gallery rooms.
“It gives you all kinds of really interesting ways to look at the works of art,” MFA’s Karen Frascona said of the effort to digitally display the masterpieces online. “There’s different angles and ways to zoom in and out. It gives you a very in-depth look.”
The museum sent Debra LaKind, director of business development and strategic partnerships, to Paris for one of two launch parties yesterday.
“The first round we needed a proof of concept, just to make sure the museums and Google could work well with each other,” he said. “Now we’ve grown and shown it scales well.”
Google is displaying a tiny fraction of the MFA’s collection of more than 450,000 works of art, Frascona said, most of the rest is already on the MFA website.
Google now displays in high resolution more than 30,000 works of art from 151 institutions in 40 countries, including those from 29 American museums and the White House.
Users can search in a number of ways, including a feature that allows visitors to virtually stroll through hundreds of museum gallery rooms.
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