The bridge over the abyss. Mystics and humanists

Not a single culture, not a single cultural stage has such a direct relationship to the present as the Renaissance. Renaissance is the most progressive and revolutionary period in the history of mankind. This is stated by Paola Dmitrievna Volkova in the next book of the Bridge across the Abyss cycle, accepting the baton with the first art critic, Georjo Vasari, a real person of his era - a writer, a painter and architect.
Sandro Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci, artists of the Renaissance, Rafael and Titian, Jerome Bosch and Peter Bruegel the Elder - have never been just artists. They were philosophers, they were charged with the main and main problems of time. The painters of the Renaissance, returning to the ideals of antiquity, created a whole, inner unity of the concept of the world, filled traditional religious plots with earthly content