This mini documentary, in the form of a Google Map, matches up famous landscape paintings with the scene painted so that you can see what the artist saw, and how he or she interpreted the scene. The scenes were determined from the names of various painting reproductions found on Wikipedia.
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| Edward Williams' painting River Landscape with Windsor Castle in Google Earth. ©Google/MyReadingMapped |
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| Richard Parkes Bonington 's painting Venice Grand Canal in Google Earth. ©Google/MyReadingMapped |
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| Frederick Edwin Church - Eruption of Cotopxi. Wikipedia Commons. |
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| Frederick Edwin Church - The Natural Bridge, Virginia. Wikipedia Commons. |
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