When technology becomes useful

Abstract: Here I tell you how I’ve found an impossible to find image for an album cover and how I get the name of a painting

I’m fan of some classical music (I have to emphasize some). Today I’ve put into my iTunes collection an album I’m very fond of it; Trois Leçons de Ténebrès, Author François Couperain and performed by Emma Kirkby, Judith Nelson and Christopher Hogwood.

Unfortunately iTunes didn’t found the proper image for the cover… so I tried an image search for the album title and I didn’t get anything, neither searching in the recording company.

The record companies use to illustrate their albums with contemporany pictures to the music author, so I look for again keeping this in my mind. Maybe, some other company or record, with the same piece has been illustrated with similar or even the same artist.

And so it was. I found one different recording from the same piece illustrated with exactly the same picture. There were only one difference, in my recording the company cut the image, on the album cover appears just a part of it but I recognized it immediately.

A reward was gived to me; De La Tour. After a couple of refined tries I asume the picture on my album belongs to George de la Tour. I’ve heard that name before but I’ve to admit I never before have a look on his work.

It’s an amazing artist. I love the album cover and I realize De la Tour is a tenebrist artist, a style I like a lot (you may have a look to my fellow countryman Josep Ribera).

There were one more thing to be done. I want to know the name paint name’s. This time I drove myself to Tineye, an image search engine that looks for similar images according the one you upload or the one you type the URL into.

I search the image I previously found and I get a set of results, the first one points to a name St. Joseph the Carpenter. Here you may a look to a poster based on a picure detail and you may enjoy the whole pint by visiting the Common Media link to St. Joseph the Carpenter.

Many times curiosity plus technology, with Tinieye in this case, brings a nice hidden surprise, such De La Tour.