This book is a collection of stories about outstanding artists, their destinies and the destinies of their canvases, about the time in which they lived and created their masterpieces. About those who inspired them and who helped them live and create.
Among the characters of the book are masters from different eras and countries, geniuses of the Renaissance (van Eyck, Uccello, Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Titian), painters of later times (Rembrandt, Holbein, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Van Dyck, Velázquez, Hogarth, Delacroix, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Munch, Manet, Whistler, Schiele), Russian artists Vrubel, Serov, Falk, and others.