Masterpieces of World Painting

"Everyone tries to understand painting. Why do they not try to understand the singing of birds?" – once said the famous artist Pablo Picasso, hinting that the art of painting is beautiful but not readable. When visiting a museum and admiring the paintings of great masters, we ask ourselves various questions:

• What did the artist mean?
• What do certain symbols or details in the painting signify?
• Why did the artist depict this particular scene?
• In what technique was this or that canvas painted?
• In what year and in what genre was the painting created?
• How do artists paint?

Without the commentary of an experienced art historian, the viewer cannot do without it.

This beautifully illustrated book, written by the art historian, senior researcher at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, custodian of the 19th-20th century sculpture collection, and curator of several exhibitions and lecture courses Natalia Kortunova, will help you find answers to many questions.