Books by St. Petersburg art critic Alexander Viktorovich Stepanov, dedicated to the art of the Renaissance, invariably enjoy the love of readers. By placing the work of the famous masters of the Renaissance in a broad historical and cultural context, the author finds new, unexpected angles for each of them, thanks to which works, which over many centuries of existence have been assigned the status of textbooks, suddenly gain a chance to be seen and rethought anew. In the third book, dedicated to the art of the Renaissance, the author examines the work of the masters of the main national art schools of Western Europe in the 15th-16th centuries - Jan van Eyck, Memling, Bosch, Bruegel, Dürer, Cranach, Stoss, Holbein, Goujon, El Greco, Hilliard and other great masters of the Renaissance. The book by A. V. Stepanov is universal in the best sense of the word: while the dynamic, fascinating narrative will be of interest to the widest reader, the academic depth of the research puts it on a par with the works of the world's leading specialists in the field of Renaissance art.