The most famous painters, musicians and writers chose to live and work in Venice above all other cities.

It never struck them that trees are exactly how a painter chooses to see them.

This second painter (Joe Andoe, a much better-known artist in what might be called early mid-career) chose a third, and so on.

A painter can choose precisely which items to put into a still life, but then the work of art unfolds according to its own logic.

A painter of traditional landscapes, Mr. Gundelfinger chose the Delaware Water Gap as his primary focus.

If women are depicted as symbols, the American painter has chosen a dignified one.

Many writers were influenced by the works, including the young Walter Scott, and painters and composers chose Ossianic subjects.

Sculptors have always had to take the back into account, while painters could choose to ignore it, and did so for centuries.

In this case the painter chose to mainly focus on departure scenes, and scenes of the God Dionysus with maenads and satyrs.