<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/eea5dd9c-0775-4d96-ab5e-f9e7a4525c11/763CFB2F-8C5D-4125-B43F-4637B2BB8A27/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/the-prado-20/?8au&emc=au" href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/the-prado-20/?8au&emc=au" style="font-size: 11px;">thelede.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/the-prado-20/?8au&emc=au"><H2 class="entry-title">The Prado 2.0</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/the-prado-20/?8au&emc=au"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/img/AD5D5D12-2612-48C3-A8FA-93142E58CCD8" alt="Google Earth - Prado" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/the-prado-20/?8au&emc=au"><SPAN class="caption">A screenshot of one Google Earth view of Goya’s “The Third of May, 1808,” one of the masterpieces in the collection of the Prado Museum in Madrid now available for high-resolution digital viewing online.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/the-prado-20/?8au&emc=au"><P>As Victoria Burnett of our sister publication The International Herald Tribune <A href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/13/technology/google.php">wrote</A> earlier this week from Madrid,</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/the-prado-20/?8au&emc=au"><P>Google and the Prado Museum here are making it possible for Web-surfing art lovers to study 14 of the museum’s greatest works in minute detail without ever setting foot in Spain.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/the-prado-20/?8au&emc=au"><P>The project allows users of Google Earth to zoom in on high-resolution images of the works, scouring the canvas for details that would barely be visible to a museum visitor standing behind a velvet cordon. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/the-prado-20/?8au&emc=au"><P>Users of the <A href="http://earth.google.com/">Google Earth</A> software can simply type in “Prado, Madrid” to be “flown” in to the virtual front door of the museum, where they are greeted by this explanation of the project, alongside 14 thumbnails of the paintings that can be viewed in high-resolution:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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