No culture, no cultural stage has such a direct relationship to modernity as the Renaissance. The Renaissance is the most progressive and revolutionary period in human history. Paola Dmitrievna Volkova talks about this in the next book of the series “Bridge over the Abyss”, taking the baton from the first art critic, Giorgio Vasari, a real man of his era - writer, painter and architect. Renaissance artists - Sandro Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Titian, Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder were never just artists. They were philosophers, they were charged with the main and fundamental problems of the time. The painters of the Renaissance, returning to the ideals of Antiquity, created a coherent concept of the world with internal unity, filled traditional religious subjects with earthly content. This publication is a revised cycle “Bridge over the Abyss” in the form in which it was conceived by Paola Dmitrievna herself - in historical terms. chronological order. It will also include unpublished lectures from your personal archive.