[9급 국가직 영어 2015년 4번]

Everyone knows what the Mona Lisa and Michelangelo's David look like － or do we? They are reproduced so often that we may feel we know them even if we have never been to Paris or Florence. Each has countless spoofs － David in boxer shorts or the Mona Lisa with a mustache. Art reproductions are ubiquitous. We can now sit in our pajamas while enjoying virtual tours of galleries and museums around the world via the Web and CD-ROM. We can explore genres and painters and zoom in to scrutinize details. The Louvre's Website offers spectacular 360-degree panoramas of artworks like the Venus de Milo. Such tours may become ever more multi-sensory by drawing on virtual reality technology, which includes things like goggles and gloves. Lighting and stage set designers, like architects, already use this technology in their work.