The Greats

Image: Claude Monet Poplars on the Epte 1891 (detail), oil on canvas, 81.8 × 81.3 cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: Diego Velázquez An old woman cooking eggs 1618 (detail), oil on canvas, 100 × 119 cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: Dan Barnett

Image: El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) An allegory (Fábula) c1585-95 (detail), oil on canvas, 67.3 × 88.6 cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: Simon Tedeschi. Photo Maja Baska

Image: Eddie Bronson

Image: Sir Henry Raeburn Reverend Robert Walker skating on Duddingston Loch c1795 (detail), oil on canvas, 76.2 × 63.5 cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: John Singer Sargent Lady Agnew of Lochnaw 1892 (detail), oil on canvas, 125.7 × 100.3 cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland.

Image: Camille Corot Ville-d’Avray: entrance to the wood c1825 (detail), oil on canvas, 46 × 35 cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: Crowds at the Art Gallery of NSW in 1906 to see Holman Hunt’s painting Light of the world

Image: Amelia Farrugia

Image: Sandro Botticelli The Virgin adoring the sleeping Christ child (‘The Wemyss Madonna’) c1485 (detail), tempera, oil and gold on canvas, 122 × 80.5 cm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: Georges Seurat La Luzerne, Saint-Denis 1884-85 (detail), oil on canvas, 65.3 × 81.3 cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: Members of the Choir of St James’

Image: Sir Joseph Noel Paton The reconciliation of Oberon and Titiania 1847 (detail), oil on canvas, 76.2 × 122.6 cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: Rembrandt van Rijn A woman in bed 164(7?), oil on canvas, 81.4 × 67.9 cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: Jean-Antoine Watteau Fêtes Vénitiennes (Venetian pleasures) 1718-19 (detail), oil on canvas, 55.9 × 45.7 cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: Jean-Antoine Watteau Fêtes Vénitiennes (Venetian pleasures) 1718-19 (detail), oil on canvas, 55.9 × 45.7 cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: Titian Venus rising from the sea (Venus Anadyomene) c1520-25 (detail), oil on canvas
75 × 56.2cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: Sir David Wilkie Pitlessie fair 1804 (detail), oil on canvas 61.5 × 110.5 cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: Hannah Gadsby

Image: Yaron Hallis from Monsieur Camembert

Image: Guercino Barbieri The prophet Jeremiah 1626, black chalk with touches of white chalk on blue-grey paper, laid down, 42.5 × 39.5 cm Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: Members of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

Image: Allan Ramsay Margaret Lindsay of Evelick, Mrs Allan Ramsay c1758-59 (detail), oil on canvas , 74.3 × 61.9 cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: William Dyce Francesca da Rimini 1837 (detail), oil on canvas, 142 × 176 cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: Sir Joshua Reynolds The Ladies Waldegrave 1780-81 (detail), oil on canvas, 143 × 168.3 cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: Still from Cyrano de Bergerac

Image: Jean-Antoine Watteau Fêtes Vénitiennes (Venetian pleasures) 1718-19 (detail), oil on canvas, 55.9 × 45.7 cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: Paul Gauguin Three Tahitians 1899 (detail), oil on canvas, 73 × 94 cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: Jean-Antoine Watteau Fêtes Vénitiennes (Venetian pleasures) 1718-19 (detail), oil on canvas, 55.9 × 45.7 cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland

Image: Agnolo Bronzino Cosimo I de’ Medici in armour c1545 (detail)

Image: Jean-Antoine Watteau Fêtes Vénitiennes (Venetian pleasures) 1718-19 (detail), oil on canvas, 55.9 × 45.7 cm, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh © Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland