Masterpieces of world painting: how to distinguish, view and understand

Often when looking at the picture it seems that there is not enough key required for its decryption. We feel the emotional effect of the work, but something still eludes an understanding.
The author of the book, Francoise Barb-Gall, proposes to proceed from those impressions that the spectators are in front of the Canvas of the Great Artists. And together with us, she goes on the most interesting journey, full discoveries.
How is the picture connected with real life? Idealized the artist reality or distorted it? Want to shake the viewer or immerse him in a contemplative mood? Francoise Barb-Gall diligently and thoroughly analyzes a number of paintings, and their true meaning gradually opens in front of us. The book comes out in two gift decorations