SC El Prado Masterpieces
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | $3.99 | MUSEO NACIONAL DEL PRADO DIFUSION SA | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Discover, navigate, learn, teach and share from your iPad or iPhone, with the option of hooking it up to your TV screen.
Created by the Museo del Prado and Madpixel, Second Canvas Museo del Prado Masterpieces, allows you to explore the 14 masterpieces from the museum’s collection, including Las Meninas by Velázquez, The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch and Self-Portrait by Dürer, in gigapixel resolution. You can also interact with them, choose your favorite detail and share it with your friends on social networks.
Works available in Second Canvas Museo del Prado Masterpieces:
• The Third of May, 1808 in Madrid. Francisco de Goya.
• Jacob’s Dream. José de Ribera.
• Las Meninas or The Family of Philip IV. Diego Velázquez.
• The Nobleman with his Hand on his Chest. El Greco.
• Crucifixion. Juan de Flandes.
• The Annunciation. Fra Angelico.
• The Cardinal. Raphael.
• Equestrian Portrait of Charles V at Mühlberg. Titian.
• Immaculate Conception. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
• Descent from the Cross. Roger van der Weyden.
• The Garden of Earthly Delights. Hieronymus Bosch.
• The Three Graces. Peter Paul Rubens.
• Judith at the Banquet of Holofernes. Rembrandt.
You have also available the Prado’s copy of the Mona Lisa, by the workshop of Leonardo da Vinci, as in-app purchase.
Content description:
• Extra material for each masterpiece, links to additional information, audioguide and sign language guide.
• Super-zoom to discover hidden details.
• X-ray and ultraviolet vision to see the drawing under the painting for featured works.
• Discover amazing stories about each painting, detail by detail.
• Tell your own stories on social networks, selecting the details you want to share in ultra-high resolution.
• Connect your iPad/iPhone to your TV at home (via AirPlay, AppleTV or cable) or projector at school to see the masterpieces in full screen while interacting with your touch device.
• Twitter integration allows you to read the opinions of other users within the app itself, which is why each masterpiece has its own hashtag.
• Share your experience, with images, on social networks and by email..
• Download the details with their stories so they can be accessed even when you’re offline or in airplane mode.
• Over 60 related works in HD that places each painting within its historical context and in relation to other works by the artist and his contemporaries.
We hope you enjoy Second Canvas Museo del Prado Masterpieces. Tell us about your experience with the app and help us improve by emailing us at: [email protected]
For more information about Second Canvas:
www.secondcanvas.net
www.museodelprado.es
For the first time ever new Bosch masterpieces can be seen in Gigapixel resolution. These paintings are available in the app Second Canvas Museo del Prado Bosch:
• The Adoration of the Magi Triptych.
• The Adoration of the Magi Triptych (closed): The Mass of Saint Gregory
• Table of the Seven Deadly Sins.
• The Haywain Triptych.
• The Haywain Triptych (closed): The Pilgrimage of Life
• The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych (closed): The Third Day of Creation.
• The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych (already included in Second Canvas Museo del Prado Masterpieces).
Reviews
A little piece of the Prado in my pocket :)
ncnoman
And some things I hadn't picked up when I visited. A great way to show and tell when you recommend a stop to one of the great European fine art collections.
Lovely, informative & fun
Tawny’sMoonBear
The image quality is amazing. The IR and x-ray versions are fascinating. I have not yet put them on the big screen but will soon. Tons of information about each piece, the artist, the history and the collection related to each piece. Plenty to intrigue before you hit the in-app purchase level - well worth the price even if you never made a purchase. App clearly seems to be set up for future additional in-app offerings, which will be a welcome update down the road. I keep pulling it up on my phone to share with friends - always sparks conversation. Love it!
The Prado Deserves Better
Mr. Kokoro
The quality of the reproductions is disappointing. If you don't think so, look at the Leonardo (which you have to pay an extra dollar for) and then look at the Rembrandt self portrait.
This changes everything
Gammon 06457
I purchased this app on my iPad a year or so ago. I have spent many hours in museums all of my life, love painting, and have closely studied the techniques of artists from many periods, and I have visited the Prado twice. This is something entirely different than what you can see in a museum. The images are astonishingly clear and beautiful. If you don't see that, remember that you have to wait for the images to load, especially when you zoom in on a tiny area to see the texture of a single brushstroke and the way its pigment dispersed across the surface of the support or other layers of paint. What you see at first is nothing like what happens as sections of the image come into full focus one patch at a time. The detail develops in front of you as you watch. I have particular favorites: the Bosch triptych was my reason for purchase; and having visited the museum I thought I knew the painting well. The truth is that I saw it for the first time with this app. I really had had no idea of who Bosch was as an artist : and northern renaissance painting is my main interest in art. There is a Bosch painting just 30 minutes from my home and another a few hours away. You just can't see this in the museum: the lighting is much too dim to really see the color and detail as it would be in full daylight, and you can't get nearly close enough to see into the layers of paint. In the app the lighting is wonderfully strong and every pigment radiates its true texture and brilliance. If you know pigments well enough you will often be able to tell exactly what pigments were used and understand how the paint was applied to create each subtle effect. In viewing Bosch I could see the colors, and the improvisation of his brushstrokes, and the living exuberance of his visual energy was nothing like what I had expected. I think many of the Bosch experts may have to completely change their minds about Bosch after really exploring the paintings this way. Once you see the physicality of the work this clearly his emotional intentions are no longer ambiguous. He adores the world and the illusions he created, both delightful or frightening. He is a master dramatist, not a moralist. Unexpected treasures: the early Durer portrait equally changed my mind about this man: the almost erotic playfulness of his background landscape and the way the liquid paint moved and slid into each other strokes was nothing like what I expected - perhaps more mysterious and improvisational even than the landscape in the Mona Lisa (the Louvre offered a gigapixel version last year- I'm not sure if it's still available, but I downloaded it at the time.) Again it was a completely different experience of the painting and the artist than I expected. The same was true for Fra Angelico. Again, I had completely under estimated his work. The colors and illusions are simply exquisite. Frosty, as fresh as morning sunlight, jewel like colors. When looking at the way Raphael's brushstrokes created the lips on the portrait of a cardinal I realized I was learning more about painting than in 50 previous years of study and practice. My hope is that options will be offered to add many more paintings and that every museum in the world will offer something like this.
