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Prado layer in Google Earth launched by google on 13-10-2009, according to official Google LatLong Blog. With  Prado layer in Google Earth, you can explore highly detailed photographic images of fourteen of the Prado Museum’s masterpieces. The Prado Museum in Madrid is one of Spain’s most visited destinations and also via the Google Earth layer you can view and learn about its most famous paintings such as The Maids of Honor (Las Meninas) or The Three Graces (Las Tres Gracias).

The Prado Museum has become the first art gallery in the world to provide access to and navigation of its collection in Google Earth, it was amazing tool.  Using Google Earth, art historians, students and tourists everywhere can zoom in on and explore the finer details of the artist’s brushwork that can be easily missed at first glance. This is amazing ting from Google after Google Adsense I think, he..he, You are excellent Google.

Using Prado layer in Google Earth also you can zoom the paintings in very high resolution and contain as many as 14,000 million pixels (14 gigapixels). With this high level resolution you are able to see fine details such as the tiny bee on a flower in The Three Graces (Las Tres Gracias), delicate tears on the faces of the figures in The Descent from the Cross (El Descendimiento ) and complex figures in The Garden of Earthly Delights (El Jardin de las Delicias), google you are Rock.

The Google Earth Prado layer also support 3D models which allow you to fly around the Prado buildings to experience the museum as if you were actually there.

To view the layer is easy, select 3D buildings from the left panel and type ‘Prado’ in the ‘fly to’ search box.  You will then be transported to the Prado Museum in 3D where you can click on an icon to view the masterpieces, that all and some search term is prado museum, museo del prado, prado, prado google earth, prado museum google earth, prado madrid, official Google LatLong Blog.

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