Paintings by Vermeer, Delaroche, Whistler, Gérôme, Waterhouse and others showing wonderful carpets and floors.
Lorenzetti
In the hands, and brushes, of great artists, a religious set-piece becomes a succession of marvellous and highly innovative paintings.
The importance of perspective in Western painting is hotly debated, but there is no doubt that is has brought about very visible change.
The earliest landscape paintings – and very many since – have fundamentally been visual records of the world.
