{"id":176602508,"date":"2014-10-28T10:51:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T17:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.artauthority.net\/?p=176602508"},"modified":"2018-04-13T13:58:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T20:58:08","slug":"life-imitating-art-authority-imitating-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artauthority.net\/life-imitating-art-authority-imitating-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Life imitating Art (Authority) imitating Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our big goals with Art Authority\u00a0for iPad is to provide you with a great museum-like art viewing experience. One of our major innovations in this area is <a title=\"Size Matters\" href=\"https:\/\/artauthority.net\/size-matters\/\">Art Real Size<\/a>, which lets you quickly and intuitively understand the size of a work of art, just as you do in a museum. We designed and implemented Art Real Size, like many of our other Art Authority features, by imitating life:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artauthority.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/AReadingFromHomer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-176602511 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/artauthority.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/AReadingFromHomer-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"AReadingFromHomer\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artauthority.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/AReadingFromHomer-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artauthority.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/AReadingFromHomer-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artauthority.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/AReadingFromHomer.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Works well, right?<\/p>\n<p>Just as Art Authority imitates life, Paul Collins, principal developer for the Art Authority app line, had the opportunity to have life imitate Art Authority. While visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art, he had this picture taken:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/artauthority.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/AReadingFromHomerRL.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s him standing in front of the real-life version of <em>A Reading from Homer<\/em> by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Looks familiar?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our big goals with Art Authority\u00a0for iPad is to provide you with a great museum-like art viewing experience. One of our major innovations in this area is Art Real Size, which lets you quickly and intuitively understand the size of a work of art, just as you do in a museum. 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