This is the volume “Art”, which contains about 1000 articles devoted to the historical development of art. Encyclopedic articles created on the basis of modern scientific data, in an accessible and fascinating form, tell about the most important cultural eras (primitiveness, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, etc.); about the main types and genres of art, about the unique features of the artistic language - the language of lines, colors and volumes, in which works of architecture, sculpture, painting and graphics, portrait, landscape, historical, everyday life and other genres “speak” to the viewer; about the materials and techniques that masters of art use in their work.