The latest such "dialogue" puts Andrea Mantegna's Lamentation Over the Dead Christ, a remarkable 15th-century canvas, alongside later paintings of the same scene by Annibale Carracci and Orazio Borgianni.
Despite the variability that would be introduced by such processes, the great number of calcite pseudomorphs that survive these processes and enter almost unchanged into the mixture applied to size the canvas supports is remarkable (Fig. 1).
Two glasses positioned at the far left end of the canvas glisten with a remarkable light despite the thick black line hovering above.
Messiaen's canvas was time, and with that too he showed remarkable ingenuity, inventing palindromic rhythms, for example, that were identical when played forward or backward.
In 1947, Bishop Alfred Voegeli reportedly made his way across town to the Centre d'Art, where another outsider, DeWitt Peters, was providing canvas, paint, advice, and an international market to a remarkable school of local artists.
The £11.8 million that greeted its appearance is the more remarkable as the support, paper laid down on panel, is far more fragile than canvas.
The book swarms with startling characters and remarkable incident: it is art history made as vivid and vivacious as a giant canvas executed by a master.
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, "War Horse" begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him.
In the riotous "The Tiger Hunt" (1616) (pictured), the look of astonishment and frozen fear on the horseman's face is remarkable, while you can almost hear the last rasping breaths of the leopard in the bottom right of the canvas.
But what's remarkable is not so much the exactitude of observation as the way Constable's painted shapes materialise on the canvas without resolving into patterns or fixed forms: just like a sky full of clouds.
