Hunters in the Snow

Bruegels landscapes contain stories within stories. This one is located in Vienna at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien.

The Milkmaid

Vermeer found a way to make a painting look like a lush photo. This one hangs out at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Paris Street; Rainy Day

Caillebotte compressed different sensations of time and movement into the same picture. A stroll to the farthest visible point could chew up half an hour. But this current predicament — a potential pedestrian collision—will play out in seconds. Do we veer left or right? Our instinctive hesitation is complicated by the man coming into the frame from the right. The space is simply too tight. And all these umbrellas aren’t helping! https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/why-repetition-in-art-pleases-the-brain/?ref=thebrowser.com