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With its massive Art Project, Google employs its dominance over digital media to present a vast online archive of the world’s most enduring and beloved fine art masterpieces, along with street-view tours of the institutions that house them.

Each featured museum was given free rein in selecting the breadth and scope of its contributions, resulting in an array of ancient and modern works, cross-referenced by place and artist. The real treats are the mega-high resolution on the zoom-enabled pics, viewer’s-eye tours of impressive architecture — and the chance to play online curator yourself with priceless objects of beauty.

Explore the constantly growing Google Art Project, watch related videos on its YouTube Channel, and follow the expansion on Facebook.

Click through below for a gallery of images from the Google Art Project.

Leonardo da Vinci, Baptism of Christ, Uffizi Gallery, Florence