10 Artworks You'll Love at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo

These terracotta sculptures, depicting a pair of ferocious guardians, would have been placed either side of an entrance way. They were made during the Tang Dynasty, regarded by many in China as a golden age of arts and culture.

Doménikos Theotokópoulos, known to art history as El Greco, was born in Greece but worked across Europe. He's well known for his fervent religious scenes painted in his own unique, enigmatic style of exaggerated mannerist gestures.

Paul Cézanne was a friend of some of the leading poets, writers, and artists of late 19th-century Paris. Here he shows the young playwright Paul Alexis reading to the calm, contemplative Émile Zola. The two were so close that Alexis was known as 'Zola's shadow'.

This painting by Vincent van Gogh, with its distant mountains, large moon in the sky, and gnarled trees, shows the influence of Japanese prints on his late work. Van Gogh was a keen walker, and the figure dressed in blue may be based on himself.

The French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker Fernand Léger developed a recognisable visual style of block colours and geometric composition. Though this painting depicts a bowl of pears it has all the intricacy of a machine or the hustle and bustle of a city scene.