Google Art Project launched in India

With several aspects of one's life going virtual, it is only fair to treat one's love of art the same way. Enter Google Art Project. This Google initiative now sees the search giant come together with two Indian institutions under the Ministry of Culture, namely the National Museum and National Gallery of Modern Art, in a collective bid to bring Google Art Project to India. For those not in the know, with their Art Project, Google aims to provide a unique online platform for museums around the world to present their artworks. As for art lovers, Google Art Project will help them nourish their love, by bringing within their reach (online), several artworks of Indian and global artists housed in the museums. The initiative was inaugurated yesterday by the Minister of Culture and Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Smt. Kumari Selja and Dr. Vijay Madan, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Culture.Admirers of the artwork depicting Hindu god, Lord Krishna with Radha, called "Radha and Krishna in the boat of love" from the National Museum and “Santiniketan Triptych” currently housed at the National Gallery of Modern Art can now view it in ‘gigapixel’ super high resolutions. The high-resolution art work will allow art lovers to view the finer details of the images that would not have been visible to the naked eye, otherwise. According to the official statement, each of these images contain roughly 7 billion pixels, thereby letting users to view fine details that lie beyond the brushwork and patina. Further enabling one of Google's other marvel technologies, Google Street View, users will be able to take a tour of galleries by themselves and even save some of their specific views of artwork, thereby building and enhancing their personalized online collection, using the My Gallery feature in the Google Art Project.Click here for full story