The book of the Moscow physician, professor of the First Moscow State Medical University named after I.M. Sechenov Leonid Ivanovich Dvoretsky is the second in a series of his monographs from the series "Medicine as part of the culture of mankind." After immersion in the world of music, the author turns his gaze to painting, enthusiastically studying the complex relationship of the kingdom of colors with the harsh everyday life of doctors. On the pages of the book, we learn not only about the diseases of artists or about the manifestations of ailments on great canvases - the author helps us look into the workshops of painters, tries to reveal their creative world, introduce us to their passions, anxieties and doubts.