The Prado, Madrid's premier art museum and Spain's most popular tourist attraction, has had some of its images added to Google Earth - at a resolution 1,400 times better than a 10 megapixel camera could take.
The project allows art lovers to see things that were previously not visible to the human eye - such as a microscopic teardrop on Roger van der Weyden's "Descent from the Cross."
Fourteen exhibits can be seen in Google Earth. Other paintings now in digital format include Diego Velázquez's "Las Meninas" and Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights". Viewers can also move around a 3D representation of the museum as if they were actually there.
The Prado is visited by more tourists each year than any other museum in Spain. If viewing the exhibits online isn't enough for you, read more about visiting for yourself: Prado Museum in Madrid.
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