Sunday, 8 March 2015

At Museo Del Prado, Blind Visitors Can Touch Masterpieces

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Guards make sure visitors to the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain, stay at arm's length from its masterpieces. But here on a recent morning was José Pedro González running his fingers over one of El Greco's most famous paintings. He went back and forth over the nobleman's eyes, rubbed his beard and eventually reached his hand, tracing the edges of each digit.

The work, of course, was a copy. But more surprisingly, the copy was in three dimensions so that Mr. González, who is 56 and has been blind since the age of 14, could experience the painting firsthand.

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