This engraving for example, which when viewed regular size gives little away. View it super large and a straightforward romantic landscape comes alive with details including a dozen or so small animals.

James Elkins wrote a wonderful article about zooming in to impossible levels of detail when GoogleArt was launched. He described it as 'a zoo of oddities' and found this dot by dot image of a head a particularly unacceptable way of getting to grips with Seurat.

 

See the three works that have so far received this close-up treatment - there are more to follow but they will all be done with discretion and not in the extreme GoogleArt manner.