Virtual gallery zooms in on masterpieces with startling detail helped by Google Earth


	Virtual gallery zooms in on masterpieces with startling detail helped by Google Earth

einbar

1-14-2009 3:18 PM

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1-14-2009 4:17 PM

debbyski

Awesome.

1-15-2009 10:10 AM

BartendingBear

Exactly why I take my binoculars (ultra-compact 8X Leitz Trinovids) to any museum I visit. People do look at me very oddly, but too bad for them. They don't know what they're missing.

1-16-2009 12:11 AM

Deepti

wow!

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