Gizmodo reports Google Earth Publishes Stunning 14 GIGApixel Photos of El Prado Masterpieces. This is just superb. What a wonderful age we are entering–or would be, if not for the state’s attempts to destroy and impede progress. (See also this great free gallery Web Gallery of Art.)
As my friend Robert Wicks noted, “Nice. Our kids are going to be much more literate than we are.” On the other hand, as Manuel Lora sarcastically told me, “GOOGLE WILL DESTROY TRAVEL!“
Here’s an example of a wonderful painting from the Web Gallery of Art–Canaletto’s gorgeous Piazza San Marco: Looking South-East (1735-40), which depicts “a lively centre of commerce.”
