Masterpieces of World Painting in Museums of the USSR

Art museums are one of the most remarkable achievements of human civilization. They preserve and make available to people the unique creations of the human spirit. On offer here is a rare book, an album of color reproductions of paintings from the collection of the USSR, "Masterpieces of world painting in the museums of the USSR". The album offered here reproduces the masterpieces of world painting from the 1st century AD to the beginning of the 20th century. The compilers of the album adhered to the chronological sequence, and thanks to this, the reader has the opportunity to follow the examples of the best works of painting for almost twenty centuries of the process of its development. Of course, it goes without saying that the completeness of the proposed picture depends on the nature of the collections of world art in the museums of the Soviet Union. The purpose of the album is to show the richness of world artistic culture on the masterpieces kept in Soviet museums and, most importantly, to trace the development of the realistic principle, to reveal the continuity that runs through the entire development of world culture. The album shows the inexhaustible wealth of realistic painting, the variety of its forms, accumulated over a thousand years of development.