The digital universe is enriched with another excellence of Italian culture. After talking to you in the past few weeks about MuViG e Atavistic, Uffizi of Florence have signed an agreement with Google. In the near future, several works from the Florentine Gallery will be available on the Google Arts application and on the museum's website. How? Let's find out together.
The Uffizi on Google
Four digital exhibits available to anyone from all over the globe. This is the news regarding the Uffizi in Florence, one of the first museums in the world to join the Google project.
By logging into the portal Google Arts & Culture it will be possible to admire 73 works exhibited in the museum, including the Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli. All in digital version, with very high resolution photographs so as not to miss a single pixel.
Instead, by accessing the museum website we will be able to participate in virtual tours and admire special contents such as the works of Piero di Cosimo, Cimabue and Amico Aspertini.
And if we want to go around the Uffizi in full freedom, no problem. Thanks to Google Street View we will be able to visit the entire museum in total autonomy, along its long and historic corridors.
Of course, visiting it live always gives other emotions, but not everyone is able to do it. And thanks to Google it will now be possible to admire its beauties directly from home.
The Art Project
The Google Art Project is a vast collection of online images of the main works exhibited in museums around the world. Born in 2011, the photographs on the portal have a resolution of 7 gigapixels, or 7 billion pixels. To give you a better idea, let's take the latest generation mobile phone cameras as an example. They take photos with a resolution of approximately 20 megapixels, corresponding to twenty million pixels. It is therefore not difficult to imagine the quality of images on Google Art.
Currently on the Art Project it is possible to admire the works of over 20 museums, including the National Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Capitoline Museums in Rome. And now the Uffizi Gallery in Florence has also become part of the vast Google program. Program that aims to host, one day, all the greatest works on the planet to make them available to anyone with a few clicks.
