The most famous masterpieces of the world portrait. Kalmykova V.

In the book, the reader will get acquainted with the most famous portraits created for five centuries. Portrait art is a picturesque genre that appeared earlier than a still life or landscape. It was formed in the Renaissance and was caused by an interest in a person, his spiritual life. Not all lovers of painting can get acquainted with the great canvases in the original, thanks to this book, the reader will be able to see the faces of the people of the past, far from us and nevertheless strangely close to us - like, for example, Leonardo Ldeno Rain on the portrait of Giovanni Bellini. Great people of old eras were warriors and patrons...