1000 Masterpieces of World Art

Within the cover of this edition, you will find not only the creations of Leonardo da Vinci and Vincent van Gogh. We consider masterpieces to include simple, at first glance, paintings by realists who had the courage to claim that simple peasants and hard physical labor are quite deserving of an artist's brush; and individual works by representatives of pop art, which in the 20th century provoked yet another round of debate on what art is; and the canvases of abstract artists who created new theories about the impact of color and form on the viewer; and somewhat naive and primitive works of ancient archaics, without which neither the masterpieces of the Renaissance nor the creative quests of our contemporaries would have been possible. From the origins of civilization and ancient frescoes to the Renaissance and Baroque, from Classicism and Romanticism to Modernism and Abstraction – this book has gathered 1000 masterpieces of world art created by humanity over more than 5000 years.