Vincent van Gogh Dutch post-impressionist artist best known and most reproduced paintings The Starry Night. In autumn 1888, while staying in Arles, he executed a painting commonly known as Starry Night Over the Rhone. Almost a year later, mid June 1889, he announced "a new study of a starry sky"

The Birth of Venus is a painting by Sandro Botticelli It depicts the Goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a full grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore (Venus Anadyomene motif). The painting is currently in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Paul Gauguin was a leading Post-Impressionist artist. Best known as a painter, his bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his painting, The Yellow Christ (Le Christ jaune) 1889, oil on canvas