Maybe you've already had the curiosity to watch "geo-biographies" offered by Google Earth . These works or important moments in the lives of famous people (artists, scientists, etc..) That have been georeferenced in Google Earth. You can either download them and view them in Google Earth is the view directly into the Google Earth plug-in browsers that support it.
In the example below, available here, these are the works of Joseph M. William Turner, a famous English painter (1775-1851), nicknamed the "painter of light", concerned with his contemporary John Constable, as a precursor of Impressionism:
But nowhere have I found information on Google's choice of places and works well georeferenced. So there is no work on Venice, where Turner stayed, however, on three occasions (1819, 1829 and 1840) and it will be an important source of inspiration for many of his paintings.
For France, the only location-based work is a work entitled "Junction of the Thames and Medway" , carried out in 1807, probably inspired by one of the bushings a little choppy Channel Turner.
After careful consideration, I have difficulty understanding the link between the theme of the painting and the scene that inspired it and where this work is geo-referenced Google Earth. Explanations a bit short from Google I was not particularly convinced. So if you have any ideas or alternative explanations, I'm interested ... The commentary
Google Earth available in the tooltip associated with one work georeferenced for France, evokes a snowstorm in the mountains Tarare in which Turner had seen his coach is over.
Turner's work when he had been smarter for Google to geocode that location, is entitled "Snow Storm at Sea" dating from 1842.
Or else it could be the table "Snowstorm. Hannibal crossing the Alps .
For fans of Turner, the site of the National Gallery of Art in Washington offers here some of his paintings which were exhibited at an exhibition held in this Museum between October 2007 and January 2008.
I have not been around other "géobiographies" offered by Google. I hope they are slightly less disappointing than Turner.
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