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Jul 9, 2024, 21 tweets

Thread on the real life locations that inspired famous paintings 🧵

1. Café Terrace at Night by Van Gogh

2. Claude Monet's Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies - Monet’s garden in Giverny, France

3. The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh - Saint-RĂ©my-de-Provence, France

The place that inspired a masterpiece.

4. The Scream by Edvard Munch - Ekeberg Hill in Oslo, Norway

5. American Gothic by Grant Wood - Eldon, Iowa

This small white house caught Wood's attention and became the inspiration for his iconic painting. The models were not actual farmers but Wood’s sister and the family dentist.

6. Sunrise by Claude Monet - Le Havre, France

7. A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat - ĂŽle de la Jatte, France

8. Starry Night Over the RhĂ´ne by Vincent van Gogh - Arles, France

It's truly magical to see the lights reflecting in the water and to imagine the legendary Dutch painter witnessing a similar scene while creating his masterpiece.

9. Mont-Saint-Michel by James Webb - Mont Saint-Michel, France

10. Wheatfield With Crows by Vincent van Gogh - Auvers-sur-Oise, France

11. Piazza San Marco by Canaletto - St Mark's Square, Venice, Italy

When you visit Venice today, it still feels like stepping into a Canaletto painting. It's one of the rare places in the world where time seems to stand still.

12. El Khasné, Petra by Frederic Edwin Church

Petra looks exactly as it did in 1874 when this painting was crafted. In fact, the “Rose City” has retained its timeless beauty over the past two thousand years, since it was carved during the Nabataean Kingdom.

13. High Street, Oxford by JMW Turner - Oxford, England

”Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”

14. The Church at Auvers by Vincent van Gogh

15. Giovanni Paolo Panini's The Trevi Fountain in Rome - Rome, Italy

16. Sunrise on the Matterhorn by Albert Bierstadt - Matterhorn, on the border between Italy and Switzerland

It’s fascinating to see a depiction from the 1880s of the most famous mountain in the Alps.

Noticeably, the great American landscape painter has subtly elongated the Matterhorn, a technique artists use to make landscapes more visually appealing.

17. Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth - Cushing, Maine

18. The Doge's Palace by Claude Monet - The Doge's Palace, Venice, Italy

19. Mont Sainte-Victoire by Paul CĂ©zanne - Aix-en-Provence, France

20. Interior of St Peter's by Giovanni Paolo Panini - St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City

Since 1750, almost nothing inside St. Peter's Basilica has changed, except for the clothing of the visitors.

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