# The Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli near Assisi [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CROSS, Henri-Edmond]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 74 x 92 cm ## Commentary The Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli near Assisi 1909 Oil on canvas, 74 x 92 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Pointillism rapidly evolved beyond the narrow boundaries of optical experimentation. As early as 1886 Seurat had demonstrated its decorative possibilities in <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/s/seurat/figures/jatte.html'\)" href="/html/s/seurat/figures/jatte.html">A Sunday Afternoon on the Ile de la Grande Jatte.</a> Growing larger, the "atoms" of colour became conducive not to illusions but to the revelation of the material structure of painting based upon the juxtaposition of flat patches, as seen in the mosaic-like surface of the present work by Cross. ## Related artworks - [Afternoon at Pardigon]() - [Beach on the Mediterranean]() - [Cypresses at Cagnes]() - [Evening Air]() - [The Clearing]() - [The Golden Isles \(Les Iles d'Or\)]() - [Undergrowth]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()