Above the cabinet, a 17th-century Florence school canvas represents Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians.

After a further trip to Africa, abridged by the necessities of his position as a pensioner of the school of Rome, he painted Judith, then, in 1870, Salomé, and, as a work due from the Roman school, dispatched from Tangier the large canvas, Execution Without Hearing Under the Moorish Kings, in which the painter had played with the blood of the victim as if he were a jeweller toying with rubies.

This famous, Sicilian-born writer of realist fiction lived in Florence during the same period as them — 1865 – 1867 — and his best known book, Cavalleria rusticana, contains certain verbal parallels to the effects achieved on canvas by the Tuscan landscape school of this era.

In 1971-2 art teacher Geoffrey Bardon encouraged the Aboriginal people of Papunya to paint their Dreamtime stories on canvas, leading to the development of the Papunya Tula school, or ' dot art ' which has become possibly Australia's most recognisable style of art worldwide.

His primary reason for joining, he says, was monetary: " I'd been stealing canvas from the bins around the art school.

Wayne Works was one of the earliest school bus companies to offer glass in place of the standard canvas curtains in the passenger area ; glass did not become a common feature until the 1930s.

* The school work, 1752, oil on canvas, 62x50, Venice, Ca ' Rezzonico

In the United States, many school buses in the 1930s were nothing more than flatbed truck chassis with wooden sides and a canvas roof, and had few or no safety devices.

Even so, when canvas or copper was not used, the main oeuvre of the northern school was painted on oak panels.

* India-white plimsolls are often worn by school children and are known as Keds dating from the 1970s and earlier, and more commonly, as " canvas shoes ".

The interior, in Mannerist style, has an illusionistic canvas depicting a false dome by Andrea Pozzo ( 1702 ).

The oil canvas mural depicting a phoenix rising from its ashes by Norwegian artist Per Krogh hangs at the front of the room.

He soon began exhibiting at their annual summer exhibitions, focusing on the creation of large canvas works depicting scenes from the daily life and mythology of ancient Greece.

The original album cover, commissioned to William Neal who designed and painted every canvas, used a gatefold sleeve, depicting on the outside blank picture frames labelled with the titles of the pieces: " The Old Castle ", " The Gnome ", etc.

A oil painting of Pedro Figari depicting Candombe dancers ( oil on canvas 75 X 105 cms.

* Pleven Panorama, depicting the Siege of Plevna in 1878, in Pleven, Bulgaria-also known as the panorama with the world's biggest canvas.

The programme of renovation included the completion of new heating and lighting systems as well as redecoration and gold leaf restoration, installation of newly commissioned bronze doors, the repair and reinstatement of the pipe organ and the installation of a new canvas by Peter Howson depicting the martyrdom of St John Ogilvie.

The canvas depicting the Institution of the Eucharist and dated from 1594 is by Federico Fiori.

Varley's Some Day the People Will Return, shown at the Burlington House in London and at the Canadian War Memorials Exhibition, is a large canvas depicting a war-ravaged cemetery, suggestive that even the dead cannot escape the destruction.

Image: JunkKeyingView70. jpg |” The Bay and Harbor of New York ” by Samuel Waugh ( 1814-1885 ), depicting the arrival of the Junk Keying in New York harbour in July 1847 ( watercolor on canvas, c. 1853-1855, Museum of the City of New York ).

Oil on canvas, Polish Army Museum, Warsaw. A painting depicting Polish youths in the Battle of Lwów ( 1918 ) | Polish uprising against the West Ukrainian People's Republic proclaimed in Lviv.

” The Bay and Harbor of New York ” by Samuel Waugh ( 1814-1885 ), depicting the Junk Keying in New York harbour in July 1847 ( watercolor on canvas, c. 1853-1855, Museum of the City of New York ).

The altarpiece ( 13. 5 × 6. 6 metres, depicting the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Michelangelo Grigoletti ) is the largest painting in the world painted on a single piece of canvas.

His canvas The Vision of the Youth Bartholomew ( 1890 – 91 ), depicting the conversion of medieval Russian saint Sergii Radonezhsky, is often considered to be the earliest example of the Russian Symbolist style.

Chiesa di San Nicola ( English: Church of St. Nicholas ) In the church holds a canvas, depicting the Annunciation, of 1464 and another painting by Girolamo Bresciano of 600.

One of the earliest surviving oils on canvas is a French Madonna with angels from around 1410 in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.

* Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna is carried in Procession through the Streets of Florence ( 1853 – 5 ), oil on canvas.

* Jewels for the Madonna ( Homage to Illa ), oil on canvas, 1951

Munch painted five versions of the Madonna between 1894 and 1895, using oils on canvas.

* Madonna and Child with St. Elysius ( oil on canvas ): Foligno, church of San Giovanni Decollato

* Madonna and child with saints ( oil on canvas ): Gubbio, church of Sant ' Francesco della Pace

It houses a canvas by Mario Balassi ( 1638 ) and a 14th century fresco of the Madonna with Child, with alleged miraculous powers.

However, one of the earliest surviving oils on canvas is a French Madonna with angels of about 1410 in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, which is very early indeed for oil painting also.

Storming of the Madonna della Scoperta, 1862, oil on canvas, 204 x 290 cm, Livorno, Museo Civico Fattori

In later life Goya bought a house, called Quinta del Sordo (" Deaf Man's House "), and painted many unusual paintings on canvas and on the walls, including references to witchcraft and war.

Rembrandt, Artemisia ( Rembrandt ) | Artemisia, oil on canvas ( 1634 ). The Museo del Prado possesses almost 200 paintings of the 17th-century Dutch School.

Francisco de Zurbarán, Bodegón or Still Life with Pottery Jars, 1636, Oil on canvas ; 46 x 84 cm ; Museo del Prado, Madrid

* Landscape with a Hawking Party, canvas, 76 x 105 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado

Nativity, 1597, oil on canvas, Museo del Prado, Madrid

Anonymous, 18th century, oil on canvas, 148x104 cm, Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlán, Mexico.

* Pastorello standing, 1740, oil on canvas, 61x45, Rovigo, Museo del Seminario

* La casa del lavadero ( The house of the laundry room ), oil on canvas on wood, 1903, Museo Abadía de Montserrat.

Portrait of Alfonso d ' Avalos, Marchese del Vasto, in Armor with a Page ( Oil painting | oil on canvas by Titian, c. 1533 )

The devastation caused by the plague of 1649 is illustrated in an anonymous canvas in the Hospital del Pozo Santo.