1000 masterpieces of world art

Under the cover of this publication, you will find not only the creations of Leonardo da Vinci and Vincent Wangog. We reckon the simple, at first glance, the paintings of realists who had the courage to declare that ordinary peasants and hard physical labor are quite worthy of the artist’s brush; and individual works of representatives of pop art, who in the twentieth century provoked the next round of the dispute on the topic "what is art"; and the canvases of abstractionists who created new theories about the effects of color and shape on the viewer; And in some ways the naive and primitive works of the ancient archaic, without which, nevertheless, the renaissance masterpieces, and the creative searches of our contemporaries.

from the origins of civilization and ancient frescoes to the Renaissance and Baroque, from classicism and romanticism to modern and abstraction - this book has collected 1000 masterpieces of world art created by mankind in more than 5,000 years.