North Renaissance is not so much variation of some general for Europe process, how many the independent, deeply original phenomenon. German and Netherlands artists Jan ван Эйк, Иероним Босх, Альбрехт Дюрер, Питер Breugel, is Senior and Маттиас Грюневальд not limited to the printing-down of separate forms of the Italian painting, and incarnated in work the own original vision imbued by mystic attitude and by symbolism.On their whimsical pictures the religious interlaces with worldly, God proves in harmony of nature, biblical plots get to earthly life and the hotshot search of truth, anxious presentiments, is reflected, quiet poetry of daily occurence in all her details - and ugliness, senselessness of the life deprived spiritual beginning.To this illustrated edition the lectures of art critic Паолы are driven Dmitrievna Волковой, author of famous cycle "Bridge through an abyss", sanctified to the artists of North Revival, processed and complemented for comfort of reader.