Yesterday I spent hours, forgetting the time completely, at the Old Masters Picture Gallery of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, one of the world’s most famous museums!
I could have spent thousands of dollars to get to the Zwinger, a magnificent Baroque complex in Dresden, and wander through the neo-Renaissance style building.
In Second Life, it’s one teleport click away.
All the rooms of the museum have been reconstructed true to scale in the SL Dresden Gallery and all of the 750 masterpieces in this permanent exhibition are on display. Apart from the truly beautiful art, the building itself is superb. The textures are the best I’ve seen anywhere. Maybe they are all carefully created from photographs? That’s enough work for 3 graphic artists, and half a dozen top notch SL builders.
In any case, it’s a work of art in itself.
Click the images to view a larger picture and you’ll see what I mean. (And read on further for Sleeping Venus)
