Great News for the Finnish Classical Art Got just message from Facebook wall. Ateneum (National Gallery of Finland) pages for the Google Art Project have been published today. Google Art Project's ambition is to collect the best of the national treasures around the world and bring them alive to everyone in the world. What is specific for such a art lover than myself is that you can get closer to the paintings through the internet than in real galleries. You get the details of brush work and colours better from the high resolution images than from the real ones. Today, Google Art Project have artwork from 230 different galleries. Eero Järnefelt's Under the Yoke photographed with Google's Gigapixel technique. You can go even closer. Click the link below. Thank you for the Great Name, Our Ancestors! Now, when pages opened in the internet we can congratulate our ancestors when they named our National Gallery as Ateneum. It's a bit odd name for the Finnish ar...