This edition includes paintings by one-hundred 19th- and 20th-century artists from ten European countries. Tehy vibidly illustred such marvellous chapters in art history as the French Enpire portrait, the Barbizon portrait, Gewrman Romanticism and French Impressionism. Superbly represented is the work of the Post-Impressionists and their followers. Dadid, Ingres, Delacroix, Lawrence, Friedrich, Leibl, Marees, Millet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Bonnard, Vuillard, Matisse, Derain, Picasso, Morandi, Campigli and other painters, who made a tremendous contribution to world art, all appear in the Hermitage collections and, hence, in this edition, as the great blazers of new trails in art and creators of everlasting spiritual values.
