Google Art Project

Here's a detail from another painting by Jan Gossaert: Neptune and Amphitrite (1516). It's in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany (CLICK). If anyone offers an award for the most laughable phallic disguise ever, this seashell hiding Neptune's blushes should win it. Yesterday Google launched its ambitious Art Project, creating a virtual world of the interiors of some of the world's top art galleries, using Street View technology, with the ability to select paintings and blow them up to show incredible detail. CLICK to explore Hans Holbein the Younger's The Ambassadors (1533) in The National Gallery, London. The Art Project isn't user friendly. Its home page is slow. Other pages produce error messages. At first it refused to allow me to set up my own gallery (a service it offers to users with a Google account) and also refused to allow me to share images. So it needs work. Click the title link to try it.