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I would love a MythTV plugin for this... I've been slowly amassing hi-res images to put on our livingroom TV as a slow slideshow for when we have people over... I'd been looking for a trove of good resolution fine 'art' ...

http://www.haltadefinizione.com/home.jsp?lingua=en from http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/10/02/1415229/Masterpieces-Online-mdash-High-Culture-At-High-Resolution but I dunno how easily you'll be able to grab the images. Or, indeed, remove the watermarking

Look at the source code of (for example) http://www.haltadefinizione.com/magnifier.jsp?idopera=10. In there you'll find this code:

swf.addVariable("xml","/immagini/opere/10/imgfull/properties_krpano.xml");

That's a relative address—the full URL is http://www.haltadefinizione.com/immagini/opere/10/imgfull/properties_krpano.xml. That file contains stuff like this:

<image type="CYLINDER" hfov="1.00" multires="true" tilesize="256">
<level tiledimagewidth="181273" tiledimageheight="113625">
<cylinder url="venere_krpano/l7_%0v_%0h.jpg" />
</level>
...

The URL, again, is relative (to the XML file) and points to http://www.haltadefinizione.com/immagini/opere/10/imgfull/venere_krpano/l7_%250v_%250h.jpg, where %0v and %0h are the vertical and horizontal coordinates, respectively. Since this level is 181273 pixels wide and 113625 pixels (taken from the "level" tag), and tiles are 256x256 pixels (taken from the "image" tag), you can grab all images at this level with the fusker string http://www.haltadefinizione.com/immagini/opere/10/imgfull/venere_krpano/l7_[01-444]_[01-709].jpg. Be careful downloading the whole picture at this detail level (7). It's 314,796 tiles! If you just want a wallpaper-sized image for this image, try downloading detail level 1, which is 2833x1776 pixels (84 tiles) (fusker string: http://www.haltadefinizione.com/immagini/opere/10/imgfull/venere_krpano/l1_[01-07]_[01-12].jpg).

By the way, the watermarks are all embedded directly in the tile sets, unfortunately. They seem to be stamped on every tile whose coordinates modulo 4 are 0, meaning only 1/16 of the images are stamped.

Happy downloading!

Look at the source code of (for example) http://www.haltadefinizione.com/magnifier.jsp?idopera=10. In there you'll find this code:

swf.addVariable("xml","/immagini/opere/10/imgfull/properties_krpano.xml");

That's a relative address—the full URL is http://www.haltadefinizione.com/immagini/opere/10/imgfull/properties_krpano.xml. That file contains stuff like this:

<image type="CYLINDER" hfov="1.00" multires="true" tilesize="256">
<level tiledimagewidth="181273" tiledimageheight="113625">
<cylinder url="venere_krpano/l7_%0v_%0h.jpg" />
</level>
...

The URL, again, is relative (to the XML file) and points to http://www.haltadefinizione.com/immagini/opere/10/imgfull/venere_krpano/l7_%250v_%250h.jpg, where %0v and %0h are the vertical and horizontal coordinates, respectively. Since this level is 181273 pixels wide and 113625 pixels (taken from the "level" tag), and tiles are 256x256 pixels (taken from the "image" tag), you can grab all images at this level with the fusker string http://www.haltadefinizione.com/immagini/opere/10/imgfull/venere_krpano/l7_[01-444]_[01-709].jpg. Be careful downloading the whole picture at this detail level (7). It's 314,796 tiles! If you just want a wallpaper-sized image for this image, try downloading detail level 1, which is 2833x1776 pixels (84 tiles) (fusker string: http://www.haltadefinizione.com/immagini/opere/10/imgfull/venere_krpano/l1_[01-07]_[01-12].jpg).

By the way, the watermarks are all embedded directly in the tile sets, unfortunately. They seem to be stamped on every tile whose coordinates modulo 4 are 0, meaning only 1/16 of the images are stamped.

Happy downloading!

Look at the source code of (for example) http://www.haltadefinizione.com/magnifier.jsp?idopera=10. In there you'll find this code:

swf.addVariable("xml","/immagini/opere/10/imgfull/properties_krpano.xml");

That's a relative address—the full URL is http://www.haltadefinizione.com/immagini/opere/10/imgfull/properties_krpano.xml. That file contains stuff like this:

<image type="CYLINDER" hfov="1.00" multires="true" tilesize="256">
<level tiledimagewidth="181273" tiledimageheight="113625">
<cylinder url="venere_krpano/l7_%0v_%0h.jpg" />
</level>
...

The URL, again, is relative (to the XML file) and points to http://www.haltadefinizione.com/immagini/opere/10/imgfull/venere_krpano/l7_%250v_%250h.jpg, where %0v and %0h are the vertical and horizontal coordinates, respectively. Since this level is 181273 pixels wide and 113625 pixels (taken from the "level" tag), and tiles are 256x256 pixels (taken from the "image" tag), you can grab all images at this level with the fusker string http://www.haltadefinizione.com/immagini/opere/10/imgfull/venere_krpano/l7_[01-444]_[01-709].jpg. Be careful downloading the whole picture at this detail level (7). It's 314,796 tiles! If you just want a wallpaper-sized image for this image, try downloading detail level 1, which is 2833x1776 pixels (84 tiles) (fusker string: http://www.haltadefinizione.com/immagini/opere/10/imgfull/venere_krpano/l1_[01-07]_[01-12].jpg).

By the way, the watermarks are all embedded directly in the tile sets, unfortunately. They seem to be stamped on every tile whose coordinates modulo 4 are 0, meaning only 1/16 of the images are stamped.

Happy downloading!

Another direct link: http://www.haltadefinizione.com/magnifier.jsp?idopera=3

Fans of the Baroque will be aware that Andrea Pozzo is best known for his use of "quadratura", the technique intermixing paintings of architectural details with elements of fancy. What is less well known is that Pozzo was an early admirer of Spongebob Squarepants. One of these amazingly highly detailed pictures shows that his "Gloria di Sant'Ignazio", painted in 1685 for the nave of the church of St. Ignazio in Rome, include a sly tribute to our favourite right-angled undersea dweller. Hit the link and zoom in to the bottom right

http://www.haltadefinizione.com/magnifier.jsp?idopera=3

Another direct link: http://www.haltadefinizione.com/magnifier.jsp?idopera=3

Fans of the Baroque will be aware that Andrea Pozzo is best known for his use of "quadratura", the technique intermixing paintings of architectural details with elements of fancy. What is less well known is that Pozzo was an early admirer of Spongebob Squarepants. One of these amazingly highly detailed pictures shows that his "Gloria di Sant'Ignazio", painted in 1685 for the nave of the church of St. Ignazio in Rome, include a sly tribute to our favourite right-angled undersea dweller. Hit the link and zoom in to the bottom right

http://www.haltadefinizione.com/magnifier.jsp?idopera=3

These, too:

Verrocchio, Leonardo da Vinci, Battesimo di Cristo
Leonardo da Vinci, Annunciazione

These, too:

Verrocchio, Leonardo da Vinci, Battesimo di Cristo
Leonardo da Vinci, Annunciazione

Caravaggio, Bacchus
Botticelli, The Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli, La Primavera

Caravaggio, Bacchus
Botticelli, The Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli, La Primavera

Caravaggio, Bacchus
Botticelli, The Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli, La Primavera

Three stories on Italy so far is nothing. We need to get posting submissions about the 16 billion pixel image of da Vinci's Last Supper. This one could be the big one