# Google Art Project **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 2, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-project/569943 "2011-02-02T21:21:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-project/569943/1 "2011-02-02T21:21:42Z")
Just found [this site](http://www.googleartproject.com/) that allows one to see ultra high resolution images of some of the world’s greatest art. Update: Not all the art is in equal resolution, but The Starry Night is in [astoundingly high resolution](http://www.googleartproject.com/museums/moma/the-starry-night). ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-project/569943/2 "2011-02-02T21:36:35Z")
Pretty cool. Thanks for posting! ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-project/569943/3 "2011-02-02T21:52:32Z")
Holy crap. You can zoom in so far. It’s amazing. Thanks for sharing. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-project/569943/4 "2011-02-02T21:59:24Z")
Wow…my gast has been flabbered. It’s amazing to see how much of _Starry Night_’s canvas is visible. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-project/569943/5 "2011-02-03T00:31:00Z")
Is “Starry Night” in the public domain? I’d love to get a high resolution version of this. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-project/569943/6 "2011-02-03T01:18:35Z")
My brother showed me that last night. Un-freaking-believable. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-project/569943/7 "2011-02-03T02:48:52Z")
Very cool stuff-- go to the National Gallery and check out Holbein’s Ambassadors. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-project/569943/8 "2011-02-03T02:57:05Z")
This is the sort of thing that makes the Internet worthwhile. Then I go read Yahoo! Answers and get depressed all over again. ☹ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-project/569943/9 "2011-02-03T03:13:48Z")
I am squealing like a schoolgirl showing all these paintings to my sweetie. For someone like me who will probably never see these in real life being able to scroll so close you can see the pattern of the canvas underneath, this is just amazing. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-project/569943/10 "2011-02-03T03:16:48Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > I am squealing like a schoolgirl showing all these paintings to my sweetie. For someone like me who will probably never see these in real life being able to scroll so close you can see the pattern of the canvas underneath, this is just amazing. …and they sure wouldn’t let you get anywhere near this close in real life. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2011, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-project/569943/11 "2011-02-03T04:25:36Z")
There are so many great pictures but I thought [this one was particularly interesting](http://www.googleartproject.com/museums/tate/portrait-of-an-unknown-lady-26) from a, I don’t know, sociological? point of view. In these days when pictures of celebrity “baby bumps” are everywhere, it’s hard to remember a time when you couldn’t say the word “pregnant” on TV and it was considered a scandal when Lucille Ball appeared on her show pregnant. Here’s a woman in 1595 who had her portrait painted in late-term pregnancy, which is pretty cool. To me.