Google Online Art Project Adds More Artwork, 20 Museums

by Nathan Eddy

A new body of photographs called “Alta Moda” (high fashion), featuring Andean people in traditional and festive dress, is currently on display in Testino’s cultural institution.

Zoom into the painting “Fra Stalheim” by Johan Christian Dahl, and you discover scenes within a scene—a village with smoking chimneys, a woman tending to her child and cows grazing on the hillside.

Start a virtual tour of the Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland and discover the galleries of this internationally renowned museum of modern art.

Recently uploaded to the gigapixel collection is “The Hungry Lion Attacking an Antelope” by Henri Rousseau, on display at the Fondation Beyeler.

The project allows users to compare works of art side-by-side, such as this example showing inscribed Arabic gemstones existing alongside contemporary glass structures from Germany.

Pictured here is a handled censer with an open work lid in the shape of a church dating from 1760 and held in the Monastery of St. John the Theologian in Patmos, Greece.

This painting, “Terrace with Oak, Sorrento,” painted in 1834 by Thomas Fearnley, is just one of dozens of works the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Norway has made available to Google.

This complete arch that is carved of wood and painted can be found in the al Sabah Collection, Kuwait, and dates from 1301 AH.

One of the database’s most famous works, Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” allows users to zoom in to an almost unfathomable level of detail.

Another new addition to the gigapixel collection is Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” which belongs to a series of motifs that Munch developed in Berlin and Asgardstrand in the 1890s.