Link:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j5eccnuaAK3qazSRzfJqxr2SnLegD95MC2O80

From the Associated Press article:

"Spain's Prado Museum has teamed up with Google Earth for a project that allows people to zoom in on the gallery's main works — even on details not immediately discernible to the human eye.

The initiative, announced Tuesday, is the first of its kind involving an art museum. It involves 14 of the Prado's choicest paintings, including Diego Velazquez's "Las Meninas," Francisco de Goya's "Third of May" and Peter Paul Rubens' "The Three Graces."
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Example JPEG here

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/media/ALeqM5hWNJBECLPJM60gciQKEb3ZN3-12w?size=s

Wow, amazing, really truly amazing. DO you think, people 30 years ago would have thought this possible? Wow

Wow, there's a maplet to zoom in and browse the masterpieces in ultra high resolution. Very nice!

http://maps.google.fr/maps/mpl?moduleurl=http://pradomuseum.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/themasterpieces.xml&utm_campaign=fr&utm_medium=mapshpp&utm_source=fr-mapshpp-emea-fr-gns-gm&utm_term=fr-prado

uh, i was thinking the news was OBS (i first notice them on jan 13)

http://video.corriere.it/?vxSiteId=404a0ad6-6216-4e10-abfe-f4f6959487fd&vxChannel=tuttiivideo&vxClipId=2524_0ace0600-e1a1-11dd-ac77-00144f02aabc&vxBitrate=300

video

http://www.corriere.it/cultura/09_gennaio_13/google_museo_elisabetta_rosaspina_bbb48cd0-e19e-11dd-ac77-00144f02aabc.shtml

news (italian)

This is amazing, great find.