Google Art Project collection is larger and, as of today, most Portuguese. This huge catalog of digital art, since its launch in 2011, has been breaking geographical barriers, are now part of the national palaces of Sintra and Queluz. These are just the first palaces Portuguese to this platform, offering free and high resolution images of 64 works from their collections, some of them classified as Assets of National Interest (the highest rating in movable).
After the Berardo Collection Museum in Lisbon, which has 23 works available, and the Foundation Dionysus Pinheiro Pinheiro Cardoso and Alice in Agueda, represented with 50 pieces, these are the next national institutions to integrate the project of Google, which already has more than 250 museums and galleries around the world. This year should enter the National Museum of Contemporary Art – Chiado Museum (MNAC), whose process has been formalized. The inclusion of the Pena Palace, also in Sintra, is already being prepared.
“We felt this was an important platform to promote these two palaces in one dimension absolutely world”, says the director of the PUBLIC palaces of Sintra and Queluz, Agnes Iron, for whom the Google Art Project is “a showcase privileged especially the quality of images and other institutions and collections represented. “
With this entry, the Palace of Sintra, with 28 works, and Queluz, with 36, join international institutions as important as the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Tate Britain and the National Gallery of London, Metropolitan New York, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the Palace of Versailles in France.
“The whole idea of ??participating in the project is in line with the objectives of internationalization of the monuments of Parks Sintra and in this particular case, with the promotion of collections of two royal palaces,” explains historian Fernando Montesinos, who with Inês Ferro chose the works and now available ranging from furniture, decorative tiles, textiles, sculpture and painting. These include, for example, the tapestry with the Royal Arms Portuguese, Globo Celeste Christoph Schissler and Chinese Pagoda in the Palace of Sintra, and the sculptures of John Cheere or Pianoforte Clementi at the Palace of Queluz.
who was chosen to represent these collections, and thus draw more visitors to the two monuments, ensures Fernando Montesinos, are “parts of reference.” “The basic criterion was that the entire collection of decorative arts of the palaces, the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, should be represented, either in its diversity and in its multiculturalism. Reading There is no chronological or authors. This is what we need better, “he assures, adding however that nothing replaces direct contact with the works of art shown here. “The Google Art Project is not the goal in itself but the means,” he adds.
For the director of two palaces, what is also important is that, through the works chosen, anyone will learn “a little bit of our history.” “We can not forget that, although very different, these two palaces were inhabited by the royal family and, therefore, to speak of a certain object, we are giving access to history,” says Inês Ferro, explaining that there was a careful very large in the preparation of the legends of each work. “Given the vocation of this project, and his vast audience, did not want to go into too much detail. Tried to give information quickly while science so that anyone can understand the subject and he alludes in the context of collections.”
Inês Ferro highlights that, since the Google Art Project allows access detailed works with high resolution images, scholars and researchers also stand to gain with this entry. “It is a remarkable tool, which I hope to join other Portuguese projects, I am convinced that this will be the way,” concludes the director.
Montesinos also expects more monuments to follow the example of these two palaces. “I have no doubt that it is important promovermos thus our heritage and how many more we are present, we gain more strength,” adds the historian.
Besides the Portuguese palaces, the platform also celebrates today the entry of eight new museums, including first Institutions Luxembourg and Ecuador. From ancient to contemporary art, from painting to ceramics, from China and India to Iran and Portugal, the range is becoming wider and already has 48,000 works of nine thousand artists.
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