The detail, above, showing a tear fall from the eye of an onlooker as the Body of Christ is taken down from the Cross, is from the masterpiece The Descent of Christ from the Cross by Van der Weyden, which is displayed in El Prado, Madrid.
(Isn't it beautiful how Mary's body so closely mirrors That of her Son's in the painting?)
El Prado is using Google Earth technology to allow us to see art in a proximity that makes brush strokes visible. The masterpieces are revealed in a way which the human eye could not necessarily detect, even if we stood on a 9 foot ladder and glued our noses to the canvas.
Fourteen of the Prado's masterpieces – including works by Francisco de Goya, Diego Velázquez and Hieronymus Bosch – can be seen online in almost microscopic detail.
The images can be seen by downloading Google Earth and typing "Prado Museum" into the search engine.
To Catholic search engines...
Google also powers a search engine called Catholic Google, which prioritises Catholic search results. A search for "truth" reveals a list topped by orthodox results, though it is not foolproof.
The Curt Jester ran an hilarious parody - Liberal Catholic Google - on his excellent blog.
To mild Luddite reactionism...
Everyone seems to be using the ibreviary, and all the cool people are on Twitter. OK, so by "everyone" and "all the cool people" I mean Fr. Z, who explains that:
The application iBreviary is an ingenious little program that lives on your iPhone, giving you the option to look at the post-Conciliar Liturgy of the Hours in different languages, including Latin.
It's an Italian program. I know of a couple of Italians who use it on their so-called iPhones. All of this is very bemusing to me.
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