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Google Earth at the Prado Museum

The Prado in Google Earth

Daniel Ochoa de Olza / AP

There may be little artistic value in seeing the painting within the painting in Las Meninas more closely than Velazquez himself could have. Butwith Google Earth's high-res technology applied to masterpieces from the Prado, you can — and the view is pretty intense.

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