Xeimonas Nikolaos

This quiet painter from 19th-century Crete kept a jar of thinned pigments by the kitchen door, so he could dash off quick oil sketches of the olive groves whenever light hit just right. He turned the same patch of dusty road into a half-dozen studies, each time shifting the angle by a foot or the hour by thirty minutes. Slide into Gallery Tiles and find Landscape (Painting)—a single canvas where a cypress twists like smoke against a blinding white sky; you’ll swear you can smell the resin and the heat.