More than one thousand-year-old talented painters created masterpieces of fine art, which became the starting point for many generations of artists: painting of the early centuries, the beauty of Renaissance art, the exquisite decorativeness of the Baroque, the noble and sublime pathetics of classicism, the airiness and transfusions of colors of impressionism, extraordinary artistic experiments of modern and modern times. Brush masters from different countries, genres, directions give the reader the opportunity to get acquainted with the brilliant history of world art, consecrated by a thousand-year tradition.