{"id":4703,"date":"2011-02-03T01:24:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T01:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2011-02-03T01:24:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T01:24:43","slug":"google-art-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/03\/google-art-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Art Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure a lot of you have already heard about the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Art Project<\/a>, which gives you a street-view-like experience of 17 great art galleries (and with more to come, I&#8217;m sure). And while you&#8217;re &#8220;walking&#8221; around, you can stop and zoom in on some of the paintings and see them in great detail. When I noticed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/museums\/frick\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Frick Collection in New York<\/a> was one of the galleries, I&#8217;ll bet most of you knew what the first painting was that I looked for. Sure enough, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/museums\/frick\/sir-thomas-more-10\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hans Holbein&#8217;s &#8220;Sir Thomas More&#8221;<\/a> is one of the paintings that you can view in detail, right down to the salt-and-pepper beard stubble on his chin! <\/p>\n<p>Other Holbein paintings I found: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/museums\/nationalgallery\/the-ambassadors\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;The Ambassadors&#8221;<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/museums\/nationalgallery\/a-lady-with-a-squirrel-and-a-starling-anne-lovell-92\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/museums\/nationalgallery\/christina-of-denmark-duchess-of-milan-90\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan&#8221;<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/museums\/nationalgallery\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Gallery in London<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/museums\/thyssen\/portrait-of-henry-viii-of-england-37\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Henry VIII&#8221;<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/museums\/thyssen\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just glancing around, I saw several English renaissance paintings close-ups in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleartproject.com\/museums\/tate\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tate Britain<\/a> collection as well, and I&#8217;m sure there are more to find in some of the other museums.<\/p>\n<p>Of course this isn&#8217;t a substitute for visiting the museums and seeing the paintings in person, but it&#8217;s a nice way to lose a few hours of your day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure a lot of you have already heard about the new Google Art Project, which gives you a street-view-like experience of 17 great art galleries (and with more to come, I&#8217;m sure). And while you&#8217;re &#8220;walking&#8221; around, you can stop and zoom in on some of the paintings and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/03\/google-art-project\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}