Friday, December 24th, 2010

Italian Masterpieces from Uffizi Gallery in Florence Go Online

October 2, 2010 by All Art News  
Filed under Education & Research, Featured

ROME (AP).- Imagine being so close to Botticelli’s Venus that you can see the strands of her blond hair, the shades of pink in her cheeks, the cracks in the centuries-old paint. That sensation is now just a click away. This week, an Italian company put online high-resolution images of “The Birth of Venus” and five other masterpieces from the Uffizi gallery in Florence, including works by Caravaggio and Leonardo da Vinci. Enlarged details of Botticelli’s ‘The Birth of Venus’. [...]