Monday, April 29, 2013

The Museo del Prado shines on the iPad - The País.com (Spain)

taste of a book and the details of the next generation applications. The Museo del Prado already has an iPad app, the Apple tablet, with an extensive and careful catalog. Discharge is easy. Just search the AppStore for Prado Museum and download. This first step does not involve a payment, it's free. Once installed you should choose a language: Spanish, French, Italian or Portuguese. Each version costs 9.95 euros. In late May, will expand the choice of German, Russian and Japanese.

details have been carefully

own generation applications: smooth transitions, index to go to a specific point in the upper right corner, there is a button to share on Facebook and Twitter tabs. The author of the guide is the Spanish-born British Fernando Gutierrez.

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use both from home and at the Centre while admiring the works. They include five themed tours proposals: 50 masterpieces, Velázquez and Venetian Painting. Animals and Princesses are designed for walking with children.

can see 400 works, sorted by nationality and time they were created. However, you can only see 50 works in detail. Yes, even better than in the real world.

appreciates the inclusion of back images of diptychs and triptychs as Garden of Delights , Adoration of the Magi or Haywain of Bosch. Works that are not visible in the exhibition halls but in the iPad. If you prefer, you can access content collections by index or by the artists.

Unlike usual, the photos are not expanded by touching the screen with two fingers and spreading them apart, but to press on a button which allow. Another aspect for improvement is that is intended for use only vertically. If the tablet is taken horizontally unchanged. It is common in applications that display an enhanced version of the images and dispensing with the text.

This interactive book could be considered the namesake of paper catalog, with a significant difference, the multimedia aspect and price. In paper are 24 euros.

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