In this book, artists of different times and directions get along peacefully - Chagall and Serov, Veronese and Zverev, the unknown author of drawings in the cave Altamira and Aivazovsky, Vermer and Kustodiev, the van Eyck brothers, Piero della Francesca, Giorgione, Hchon ale, Levitan, Repin, Malevich, Modigliani, Matisse. Irina Opimakh avoids reasoning about the features of the composition, the nature of the smear, stylistic subtleties and, in general, about everything that art critics write about in serious scientific works.