Using the wonders of modern technology Halley Docherty pairs classical renaissance artworks together with their real-world 21st century locations using Google Street View to quite literally reveal the bigger picture – a project that must have taken hours and hours of research to complete.
From famous paintings in Paris all the way to St. Petersburg Docherty’s work is not only fascinating, it also highlights how much has changed since the artists who created the artworks first put paint to canvas. Check them out below.
Sailors jousting between Pont Notre-Dame and Pont au Change (1756) by Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Raguenet, Paris, France
Berlin – Opernhaus (1850s) by Eduard Gaertner
Le boulevard des Capucines devant le théâtre du Vaudeville (1889) by Jean Béraud, France, Paris
Parade at the Palace Square in St Petersburg (1800s) by Adolphe Ladurner, Russia
Spittelmarkt (1833) by Eduard Gärtner, Berlin
St Petersburg – Nevsky Prospekt by Anichkov Bridge (1847) by Ludwig Franz Karl Bohnstedt, Russia
La Modiste Sur Les Champs-Élysées (1889) by Jean Béraud, France
Antwerp – Group Portrait of the Oude Voetboog Guild on the Grote Markt (1643) David Teniers II
A Regatta on the Grand Canal (c.1740) by Canaletto, Venice, Italy
Caulking Boats (1832) by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Tokyo
The Piazza San Marco towards the Basilica (1760-65) by Francesco Guardi, Venice, Italy
The Stonemason’s Yard (1726-30) by Canaletto, Venice, Italy
Night view of Saruwaka Street (1856) by Utagawa Hiroshige, Tokyo
Nighthawks (1942) by Edward Hopper, NY
Hustle and Bustle on the Galata Bridge in Constantinople (1890s) by Fausto Zonaro
Jerusalem (1886) by Gustav Bauernfeind
View of Nihonbashi Tori-itchōme (1858) by Utagawa Hiroshige, Tokyo
