Italian Masterpieces from Uffizi Gallery in Florence Go Online

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’. [...]

Uffizi Virtuale, A new experience with art at Shangai Art Museum

Shanghai.- The masterpieces of Italian art arrive at Shanghai Art Museum from the world-famous Uffizi Gallery. Uffizi Virtuale suggests an interactive itinerary within the Uffizi Gallery Collection. Uffizi Virtuale, A new experience with art Nine multimedia installations, each with large format touch screen interface, will be showing one masterpiece after another. By touching the screen, visitors will be able to examine every particular and zoom in to see the most hidden detail up to the point of perceiving the artist’s [...]