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

In this book, artists of different times and directions are peacefully around - in one row with Velasquez and Rembrandt, Chagall and Serov, Veronese and Zverev, an obsequious written writers in the cave Altamira and Aivazovsky, Vermer and Kustodiev, Brothers Wang Eyk, Pierrot Della Francesca, Georgeon, Hals, Levitan, Repin, Malevich, Modigliani, Matisse ... Irina Opima avoids reasoning about the peculiarities of the composition, the nature of the smear, stylistic intricacies and in general about what art historians write about serious scientific works. She tells primarily about the fate of great creations, about artists and times in which they lived, about the models that they inspired them. And it turns out that every painting that has become the classic of world art, not only was, but to this day its own, special, life - sometimes with the famously swirling plot, in which the highest takeoffs of the human spirit are accompanied by insane adventures, love dramas, greed and betrayal…