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Art on demand at National Gallery
The National Gallery has been storing images of its collection
Copies of more than 900 works of art at the National Gallery are being made available at the flick of a switch as new technology is unveiled.
Masterpieces on display at the gallery have been captured on advanced digital cameras.
The images have stored on computer so that visitors can obtain a copy almost instantly.
Until now visitors were only able to get a small proportion of the gallery's treasures on traditional printed copies.
The gallery said it has taken two years to capture all 2,300 works of art.
The "print on demand" technology will allow visitors to browse through and print in reproduction quality A3, A4 and A5 size prints.
Great idea. I'm not a huge lover of art for the sake of itself, but I do enjoy seeing the mastery of the great artists as exhibited at places like the National Gallery. I think its a shame that one can only get hold of this by visiting.
Obviously a trip to the capital is in order.
Posted by Paul Goodison at July 28, 2003 09:30 AM | TrackBack