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...Like most other major art museums, Madrid's Prado maintains an online gallery of its most important works. Now, thanks to a new Google project unveiled on Jan. 13, 14 of those masterpieces, including Velázquez's Las Meninas, El Greco's Nobleman with Hand on His Chest, Durer's Self-Portrait and Fra Angelico's Annunciation, have been reproduced in a resolution so fine - 14,000 megapixels - that not only individual brushstrokes but even the seams in the canvas and cracks in the varnish are visible. (Read a TIME story on the Prado...
...obtain the pioneering images, technicians at the Prado used special cameras to take more than 8,200 photographs of the paintings over the course of three months. Those images were then connected and layered using the same Google Earth technology that allows a viewer to zoom in on a street or a house almost anywhere on the globe. (To see the works, users must download the Google Earth application, enter "Prado masterpieces" in the search window and then click on the icon representing the museum...
...With prodigious realism, we've universalized knowledge of these works," said Prado director Miguel Zugaza in a presentation to the press. "We now have an amazing tool for researchers, teachers and art lovers...
...restaurants, galleries and nightclubs. El Rastro, the flea market, is one of his regular shopping haunts, as are the surrounding areas for their vintage stores. For a dose of culture and design inspiration, Vevers heads to the Golden Triangle, an intersection of Madrid's three most famous museums?the Prado, the Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Reina Sofía. Here are a few more of his favorite destinations...
...usually emphasize flavor, such as pumpkin, grapefruit or raspberry,” Alpizar said. While there are students who regularly attend these sessions, there are also many curious newcomers. “It’s an unbeatable value! There’s food, beer,” Sergio Prado ’09 said about the $10 ticket price that covers both drinks and food. “I’ve loved beer for quite a long time. Our whole blocking group loves beer. This just seemed like a good idea.” He added that, throughout...