Heroes of the paintings. Life and fate of models from famous canvases

There are faces familiar to us since childhood, they look at us from narrative paintings and grand portraits. However, knowing the history of the canvas, the author, and his message, we almost never know anything about the people captured on... the canvas. This book is about them. About those young men and women, ladies and cavaliers, peasants and traders, who "gifted" their faces to the artists.
- More than 50 models and about 240 color illustrations and archival photographs
- The brightest and most famous canvases of Russian and world art
- Interesting and documented stories about the creation of world-famous paintings
Elizaveta Krasnaya - art historian, researcher of the Russian North, advocate of NFT.