Two greatest vedutisti, which means painters who devoted themselves to almost one and only subject of choice. The timeless Venice.

Edgar Degas was a difficult, annoying personality. But what a painter he was!

With his prematurely grey and thick beard Pissarro was regarded as a father figure for the group of progressive painters in Paris.

With Vermeer we get absolute craftsmanship and a great attachment to colour accuracy. How did he achieve that?