Edition that you get on the hip unites three books based on the unique set of lectures of art critic Паолы Волковой. First is "Comment to Antiquity", where new connections are traced between forms - from Стоунхенджа to the theatre "Globe", from Крита to the Spanish corrida, from European Mediterranean to концептуализма of the XX century, is all constrained and can not exist without each other. "I suppose, - Паола talked Dmitrievna, - that all that history of culture that we know, is continuous history of comment. We comment Antiquity until now. Due to this endless comment with a world artistic culture we have psychological, intellectual and heartfelt riches".The second book "Mystics and humanists" is sanctified to Renaissance. Artists of this period of Сандро Боттичелли and Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Titian, Иероним Босх and Питер Breugel Chief were not simply artists. They were the philosophers, charged the main problems of time. Going back to ideals to Antiquity, they created whole, possessing internal unity conception of the world, filled with traditional religious plots earthly maintenance.The last book plugged in this course of lectures tells about the phenomenon of impressionism. Eduard Мане and Claude Моне, Edgar Дега and Огюст Ренуар, Анри de Тулуз-Лотрек and Paul Гоген tried to carry to the spectator of impression, beauty of everyday reality, and to pass that an eye sees in concrete moment, and turned out so, that their work once for all influenced on all subsequent art.A book invites a reader in an enthralling trip through centuries, where he, following by the story of art critic, will be able newly to comprehend characters of world artistic culture.