Paintings on the Map Project
This project extends the idea of the Painters’ Lives Project to provide a bird’s-eye view for better understanding of time and historical contexts. Arranging pieces of art on the map gives an interesting cross-section, revealing leading countries in painting and how art movements coexisted.
The data is taken from Wikidata. The source list of artists was reduced to painters with a date of birth between 1800 and 1948, who had citizenship in a European country. Coordinates on the map correspond to the respective citizenship countries’ capitals. If a painter has two or more citizenships, the place of birth is taken.
The website is created using the p5.js library for JavaScript. For future development, I am considering adding more informational layers (for example, dates of key historical events, changing borders of countries depending on the year), and search filters to enrich the content as well as expand the time frames.
Programming consultant: Sergey Susikov.
