Picturesque stories. About the great canvases, their creators and heroes

In this book, artists of different times and directions coexist peacefully - on a par with Velazquez and Rembrandt are Shagal and Serov, Veronese and Zverev, an unknown author of drawings in the cave of Altamy and Aivazovsky, Vermen and Kustodiev, Brothers Van Eik, Pierrome Della Francesca, Georgone, Jordeon. Hals, Levitan, Repin, Malevich, Modigliani, Matisse ... Irina Opimima avoids reasoning about the features of the composition, the nature of the smear, stylistic subtleties and in general about everything that art critics write in serious scientific works. She talks primarily about the fate of great creations, about artists and times in which they lived, about the models that inspired them. And it turns out that every picture, which has become a classic of world art, was not only, but to this day its own, special life continues - sometimes with a dashingly twisted plot, in which insane adventures, love dramas, greed and the highest rise in the human spirit are accompanied betrayal